For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

Japan aims to launch the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) into space by mid-September with a lunar landing seen starting as early as January 2024. Japan would become the fifth country to ...

Two moon landers, one from Japan's ispace and another from U.S. space firm Firefly, began their journeys into space on ...

From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told ...

or SLIM, mission, which landed on the moon using a precise landing technique in March 2024. China's Tianwen-2 mission is an ambitious asteroid sample return and comet probe mission. Scheduled for ...

As far as space exploration goes, 2024 was the Year of the Questionable Landing. The Japanese moon lander SLIM (an acronym for “Smart Lander Investigating Moon”) set the tone in January by ...

It builds on the success of Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission, which landed on the Moon using a precise landing technique in March 2024. Investigating an asteroid with ...

A SpaceX rocket set to launch overnight will carry two lunar landers, one from Austin-based Firefly Aerospace and one from ...

Japan and Intuitive Machines land on the moon — sort of 2024 saw a number of moon landing attempts ... landed its SLIM probe on the lunar surface on Jan. 19. Because of an engine failure ...

In fairness to SLIM, it certainly wasn’t the only moon lander that had trouble with the whole landing thing in 2024. In February, the lander IM-1, built by Houston-based company Intuitive ...