Japan’s Moon Sniper mission by JAXA set a new standard for precision in space travel. Explore the engineering feat and its ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

Japan’s space agency on Monday postponed the planned launch of what it hopes will become the first Japanese spacecraft to land on the moon due to strong, high-altitude winds. Japan aims to ...

The two landers rocketed away in the middle of the night from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the latest in a stream of private spacecraft aiming for the moon.

EPIC (Earth image) The ispace mission will launch ‘Hakuto-R Mission 2’ on a four-and-a-half month journey to the lunar surface Japanese lander heads to the Moon About one month after launch Complete a ...

Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with few young people working in agriculture. But now its farmers are getting ...

Japan’s space program will take a giant leap forward as the country is set to land its first astronaut on the moon as early as 2028 in a U.S.-led mission. At a meeting in Washington on April 10 ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

Two moon landers built by private U.S. and Japanese companies are on their way to the moon after lifting off early Wednesday ...

Japanese startup ispace vowed its upcoming second unmanned moon mission will be a success, saying Thursday that it learned from its failed attempt nearly two years ago. In April 2023, the firm's ...