Takeshi Hakamada, ispace's president and founder, revealed that the HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lander is believed to have crashed while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday, June 05, 2025. (ispace) ...

At the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab, Dr. Phil Metzger and other university researchers have developed a ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company’s lunar lander. NASA released the pictures Friday, two weeks after ispace’s lander ...

Monaco-based Venturi Space has debuted a new design for a next-generation lunar rover that it's calling Mona Luna. It's a pitch that it hopes the European Space Agency (ESA) will pick up during ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

The Resilience lunar lander (illustrated, left), owned by Tokyo-based company ispace, attempted to touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft contains several payloads, including ...

More information: J. J. Bowkett et al, Autonomous surface sampling for the Europa Lander mission concept, Science Robotics (2025). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adi5582 Journal information: Science ...