Japan is in contact with its newly arrived Moon lander, but it appears to be having technical problems, the country’s space agency has said. The country sent its “Slim” spacecraft to the lunar surface ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese startup ispace aims to become the first non-U.S. company to achieve a controlled moon landing as it prepares for the touchdown of its second uncrewed spacecraft on Friday, ...

Japan is now the fifth country to pull off a soft landing on the moon. A Japanese space agency manager earlier called the landing "a breathless,... Japan has pulled off one of the hardest tricks in ...

When Japan’s solar-powered SLIM spacecraft made a lopsided-but-successful touchdown on the moon in mid-January, most news coverage focused on the feat as a historic first for the nation—only the fifth ...

TOKYO — Japan landed a spacecraft on the moon Saturday, an attempt at the world's first “pinpoint lunar landing." The milestone puts Japan in a club previously occupied by only the United States, the ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Two Japanese F-35A stealth fighter jets made emergency landings at a commercial airport in northern Japan on Monday, but there were no injuries or damage, officials said. The fighter jets ...

Japan has pulled off one of the hardest tricks in space exploration: a soft landing on the moon. Its "Moon Sniper" mission settled onto the moon's surface Friday morning. But JAXA, the Japanese space ...