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 ...

The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s ...

On June 5, a lander called Resilience was supposed to touch down in the Mare Frigoris region of the Moon, delivering, among other things, the continent's first-ever lunar rover. Turns out the ...

RESILIENCE Lunar Lander crashed in Mare Frigoris on June 6, 2025, after a Hard Landing Moon. The Japan Moon Mission failed, losing payloads like ESA's Tenacious rover.

The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s ...

If all went well, the lander would touch down near the center of Mare Frigoris, a lunar sea near the Moon's north pole. But all did not go well. One minute and 45 seconds before Resilience's ...

The lander was supposed to settle on Mare Frigoris, a narrow lunar plain on the moon’s northern region, around 3:17 p.m. Eastern. But mission control lost contact with the spacecraft shortly ...

The lander, named Resilience, was meant to touch down early morning Japan time near the center of the Mare Frigoris (Sea of Cold) in the moon’s northern hemisphere, as part of Mission 2 under ...

A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, with its makers officially declaring the mission a failure. Tokyo-based company ispace said on Friday ...

The planned landing site was Mare Frigoris, a plain about 900 kilometers (560 miles) from the moon's north pole. Lunar landings remain challenging due to the moon’s rugged terrain. To date ...

The ispace team chose a flat area with few boulders in Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a long and narrow region full of craters and ancient lava flows that stretches across the near side’s ...