Earth lost contact with the private Japanese spacecraft "Resilience" during an attempted moon landing on Thursday. The lander was carrying what would have been the first European-built rover to ...

TOKYO — A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power. Japan's first lunar mission hit its target in a precision ...

Japanese moon landing attempt fails A small, privately-funded Japanese spacecraft attempted to land on the moon Tuesday, but flight controllers in Tokyo lost contact with the craft during the ...

One of two engines powering a Japanese moon lander during its descent to the lunar surface Jan. 19 suffered a malfunction of some sort just 160 feet above the lunar surface that sharply reduced ...

TOKYO — A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power. Japan's first lunar mission hit its target in a precision ...

A version of this article appears in print on April 26, 2023, Section A, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A Japanese Spacecraft Likely Crashed During a Moon Landing Attempt.

While this Japanese landing on the moon didn't go to plan, the country did have success on an asteroid with Hayabusa2.

A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday, Jan. 29, after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power. Credit: AP By The Associated PressUpdated January 30, 2024 ...

The private Japanese lunar lander is currently in orbit around the moon and targeting a landing for 12:40 p.m. EDT on Tuesday, April 25 (1640 GMT, or 1:40 a.m. JST on April 26).