Japan is the fifth nation to reach the lunar surface, joining the United States, the former Soviet Union, China and India. SEE MORE: Japan becomes 5th country to reach the moon ...

But when a computer happens to be descending towards the lunar surface and glitches out, that’s a very different story. Turns out that’s what happened on April 26th, as the Japanese Hakuto-R ...

Jaxa produced this render of Slim to show the awkward landing orientation that pointed the solar cells away from the Sun Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and ...

In premodern times Japan also celebrated a lunar new year (Setsubun), but since the adoption of the Western calendar in Japan in 1873 the official New Year’s Day has been January 1. Some people ...

While Japan has technically become the fifth country ... which was meant to be the first US Moon lander to softly touch down on the lunar surface in over half a century, subsequently drifted ...

The Lunar Module separated 47 minutes after launch from the Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan TOKYO, September 7. /TASS/. Japan’s first lunar probe Smart Lander for Investigating ...

Japan's Moon lander ended up on its nose when it made its historic touchdown on the lunar surface. The first picture of the stricken Slim spacecraft shows it rotated 90 degrees from how it should ...

Earlier today, on January 19, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency announced the successful landing of the SLIM module on the lunar surface. This occurred at approximately 17:20 Kyiv time.

Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and freezing equivalent to two Earth weeks. "Last night, a command was sent to #SLIM and a response received," national space ...