Japan’s space agency said on Monday its SLIM moon lander has unexpectedly survived a freezing lunar night and re-established communication with the earth, more than a month after the spacecraft ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...

The two small probes had completed their mission of recording SLIM's initial work and have since stopped working. The landing made Japan the world's fifth country to reach the moon, after the ...

Fortunately, by the eighth day, SLIM had regained power owing to ... Read also: Intuitive Machines' Odysseus probe lands on Moon, heralding new era in private space exploration Scientists advance ...

It was using “pinpoint landing” technology that promises far greater control than any previous moon landing. While most previous probes have used landing zones about 10 km, SLIM was aiming at ...

Illustration showing the Lunar Trailblazer probe on the prowl to probe the abundance and distribution of water on the moon, as well as the lunar water cycle. | Credit: Lockheed Martin LITTLETON ...