NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has imaged the crash site of Resilience, a moon lander built and operated by the ...

The spacecraft's laser range finder, or LRF, experienced an anomaly that prevented Resilience from obtaining valid ...

NASA, for its part, had already spotted the wreckage. About a week after the crash, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter passed about 50 miles above the landing site, Mare Frigoris — and snapped a photo ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., ...

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the crash site of Japan's Resilience moon lander. The ispace lander aimed for a historic landing in Mare Frigoris. Communication was lost during ...

The images show a dark smudge where the lander, named Resilience, and its mini rover crashed into Mare Frigoris or Sea of Cold, a volcanic region in the moon's far north.

Japanese company attributes second Moon landing failure to laser tool anomaly The lander, named Resilience, was trying to land on the moon's Mare Frigoris, also called the Sea of Cold, when it failed.

Japanese company ispace confirms that a fault in the laser range finder of the Resilience lander caused the spacecraft to ...

The photos, taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, show a dark mark and a faint halo in the Mare Frigoris region—also ...

A NASA spacecraft around the moon has photographed the crash site of a Japanese company's lunar lander. NASA released the ...

Mare Frigoris formed over 3.5 billion years ago as massive basalt eruptions flooded low-lying terrain, according to Mark Robinson, a lunar scientist for the company Intuitive Machines who is based ...

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...