Japan is ready to support the United States' lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said on Friday, after the U.S.

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

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

NASA and Japan have just launched two unique lunar landers on a single SpaceX rocket - and their missions couldn’t be more ...

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

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

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 ...

Japanese carmaker Toyota shows the pressurized Lunar Cruiser Moon rover prototype in action for the first time, to support ...

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

In February, Firefly’s lander successfully touched down, becoming the first American commercial mission to achieve an upright landing on the Moon. Taking a slightly longer journey to the Moon, Japan’s ...