China, in collaboration with Russia and other countries, has also set a goal of building a lunar base by 2045. India also has ...

Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese lander attempted to touch down on the moon Thursday, but telemetry indicated a higher-than-expected descent ...

Four-and-a-half months after launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket, a privately-built Japanese lander attempted to touch down on the moon Thursday, but telemetry indicated a higher-than-expected descent ...

Employees of ‘ispace’ react as they wait for the signal from the touchdown of its lunar lander Resilience on the Moon at a venue to watch its landing in Tokyo, Japan, June 6, 2025.

The company’s U.S. subsidiary is building a new model of lander, called Apex 1.0, for a NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) mission led by Draper and scheduled for launch in 2027 ...

A private space exploration company based in Japan, ispace, wants to see people living on the moon by 2040. They have plans to eventually build a city on the lunar surface that would house a ...

TOKYO — 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 ...

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