TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first non-U.S. company to achieve a controlled moon landing as it prepares for the touchdown of its second uncrewed spacecraft on Friday, ...

Japan's private Resilience lunar lander has given us a nice shot of the moon just two weeks before its historic touchdown attempt. On Thursday morning (May 22), the Tokyo-based company ispace, which ...

A private lunar lander from Japan descended toward a touchdown on the moon Friday, but its fate was unknown as flight controllers scrambled to figure out what had happened. The moon landing attempt by ...

Japanese engineering giant Shimizu believes—like many others—that they have a fix for climate change: just wrap the Moon's 6,800-mile equator in a solar panel ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to the moon. The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure ...

A Japanese company trying to land a spacecraft on the moon Friday said that the unmanned lander is believed to have crashed into the lunar surface. Five hours after initiating the landing sequence and ...