A Japanese company hoping to carry out a rare private Moon landing says it is likely its lunar lander crashed on the surface. Communication was lost with Hakuto-R moments before it was due to ...

While Japan has technically become the fifth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, following the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and India, its lander didn ...

Japan's Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made ... main engine affected the landing attitude of the spacecraft," the Japanese space agency Jaxa said in a statement. It seems one of the ...

Japan’s space agency has selected two new candidate astronauts to join its ranks who could even become the first Japanese to set foot on the moon ... at the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center.

Under the Artemis international lunar exploration program, in which Japan participates, Yoneda, 29, and Suwa, 47, may become the first Japanese to land on the moon as early as the late 2020s.

There is a possibility that they could become the first Japanese to land on the moon if they are assigned ... Yoneda formerly worked for the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center as a surgeon, while ...

"Two Japanese astronauts will join future American missions, and one will become the first non-American ever to land on the Moon," Biden said in a press conference with Kishida. Kishida hailed the ...

The HAKUTO-R M1 lunar lander appeared to be descending to the moon as planned ... A baseball-sized "transformable" robot from the Japanese space agency, JAXA, was also on board, according to ...

Japanese Maple trees are loved for their gorgeous color-shifting leaves, creating a magical-looking fall landscape. Here's ...

Paul Patterson, the boss of the European arm of Fujitsu - the Japanese company that developed the faulty Horizon system - is ...

with red lines adding a striking design element. Two Japanese astronauts are expected to stand on the Moon wearing the spacesuit. The Artemis program led by the National Aeronautics and Space ...

Japanese people, meanwhile, will eat grilled sticky rice balls called tsukimi dango (“moon viewing”) while ... contain about 1,000 calories. Nuts, red beans and custards are some other popular ...