NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the Tokyo-based company ispace. Resilience tried to touch down on June 5 in the ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid measurements of its distance from the lunar surface.

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan. And only the U.S. has put astronauts on the moon, ...

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

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured haunting images of a dark smudge and debris where Japan’s Resilience lander smashed into the Moon.

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed ...

A NASA spacecraft has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the pictures on Friday, two weeks after ispace’s lander slammed into the moon. The images show a ...

This image provided by NASA shows an annotation indicating the impact site for ispace's Resilience lunar lander, seen by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera on June 11, 2025. — Photo from ...

A Japanese company says a laser navigating tool doomed its lunar lander, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday. The crash landing earlier ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander.Related video above: SpaceX rocket being tested in Texas explodesNASA released the pictures ...

Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around moon ahead of a June touchdown. May 7, 2025. Private Japanese lunar lander heads toward a touchdown in the moon's far north. Jun 5, 2025.

A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.. Officials for ispace announced the news from Tokyo on Tuesday.