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

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 ...

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

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, ...

An illustration of ispace's Resilience lunar lander and its Tenacious lunar rover. Credit: ispace Last week, I looked at the faces of our guests at our moon landing event and watched as awe ...

NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after Ispace's lander slammed into the moon. The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into the Mare ...

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

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

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.

NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after Ispace's lander slammed into the moon. The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into the Mare ...

NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after Ispace's lander slammed into the moon. The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into the Mare ...