It’s hard to land on the moon, technically. We know it’s not easy. It’s not something that everyone can do.” These words of ...

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

LRO and Chandrayaan-2 captured debris of Japan’s crashed moon lander Rangefinder failure led to Resilience’s uncontrolled high-speed descent ispace confirms crash cause and plans future missions with ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

Spacecraft from NASA and India's space agency have snapped orbital photos of the Japanese lunar lander Resilience after its ...

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

Lava once flooded and filled the mare basins. After it hardened into basalt, tectonic forces broke and buckled the volcanic rock into complex patterns of wrinkle ridges that zigzag through the dark ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

Japanese company ispace has declared a second failure in a bid for its lunar lander to touchdown on the Moon after communication was lost less than two minutes before ...