People await the update on ispace's private lunar lander’s attempt to touch down on the moon Friday, June 6, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. Credit: Kyodo News via AP ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed moon lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface during its touchdown attempt on Friday, marking another failure two years after an ...

A private lunar lander from Japan descended toward a touchdown on the moon Friday, but flight controllers lost contact with the spacecraft and were unsure of its fate. The Tokyo-based company ...

Japanese company ispace plans to launch Mission 2, its second shot at landing on the moon, this December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

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 ...

Only five countries have pulled off successful robotic lunar landings: Russia, the U.S., China, India and Japan. Of those, only the U.S. has landed people on the moon: 12 NASA astronauts from 1969 ...

Models of the lunar lander Resilience (centre, L) and the lunar rover Tenacious (centre, R) operated by Japanese private company ispace are displayed at the Moon landing event venue in Tokyo on ...

A private lunar lander from Japan fell silent while descending to the moon with a mini rover Friday and its fate was unknown. The Tokyo-based company ispace said its lander dropped out of lunar ...

Models of the lunar lander Resilience (centre, L) and the lunar rover Tenacious (centre, R) operated by Japanese private company ispace are displayed at the Moon landing event venue in Tokyo on ...

Astrobotic's first lunar lander missed the moon altogether in 2024 and came crashing back through Earth's atmosphere. For decades, governments competed to get to the moon.