If all goes according to plan, Resilience will touch down on June 5 within Mare Frigoris ("Sea of Cold"), a basaltic plain in ...

A third private moon lander is getting closer to touchdown on Earth's only satellite this summer after Japan-based company ...

The moon is getting a new visitor, as the Japanese company ispace has entered lunar orbit with its Resilience lander.

NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

Japanese space company ispace has a mission that has slowly made its way to lunar space, and in the coming weeks will attempt to land on the Moon. There’s a crucial event ahead of that, and it ...

A privately developed Japanese lunar lander has successfully entered orbit around the moon, Tokyo-based ispace announced on Wednesday, marking a key step ahead of its planned landing attempt in ...

A successful landing would be the second for Japan, whose national space agency put a spacecraft called SLIM ("Smart Lander for Investigating Moon') down in January 2024. Resilience is carrying ...

File - This photo provided by ispace in January 2025 shows the Resilience lunar lander. (ispace via AP, File) 34,242 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.

A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown. Tokyo-based ispace said Wednesday morning its Resilience lander entered ...