The Resilience spacecraft went dark during its landing attempt on June 5, and likely hit the moon too fast. The company will ...

The Resilience lander was carrying a tiny rover, a miniature Swedish cottage, and several science payloads when it crashed ...

A private lunar lander from Tokyo-based company ispace was aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north with a mini ...

Early investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and a sensor measuring the craft’s altitude.

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small ...

Earth lost contact with the private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" during an attempted moon landing on Thursday. The lander ...

A privately-built Japanese moon lander has so far failed to send a signal back to Earth after making its descent to the lunar ...

Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon after ...

A Japanese company had hoped that the second time would be the charm for putting a robotic lander on the moon. But it appears to have failed again.

This was the aerospace firm Ispace's second attempt at placing a spacecraft on the Moon. A third will follow in 2027.

The company's Reslience lunar lander will attempt to touch down in Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basalt plain in the ...