A private lunar lander from Japan fell silent while descending to the moon with a mini rover Friday and its fate was unknown.

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

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

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent ...

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

A private lunar lander from Japan is closing in on the moon, aiming for a touchdown in the unexplored far north ...

A private lunar lander from Japan descended toward a touchdown on the moon Friday, but flight controllers lost contact with ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

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

The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.