Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission failed to respond to signals sent over the last few days — but all ...

The Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, also known as SLIM, did not respond to a signal sent to it by Japan's space ...

The landing brings the Chang’e-6 mission a step closer to being the first to return a sample from the part of the moon that’s ...

The first of 2024's lunar touch-down attempts will be conducted by the Japanese space agency (Jaxa) and is expected on 15 January. Jaxa's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (Slim) will target a ...

By looking at Earth as an exoplanet, astronomers hope to search for similar fingerprints coming from planets around other ...

Despite developing a critical issue with its solar cell, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) ‘Smart Lander for Investigating Moon’ successfully completed a soft landing on the ...

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe, making Japan only the fifth country to land an unmanned spacecraft on ...

While Japan has technically become the fifth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, following ...

Japan joined the lunar landing club in January with its uncrewed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM). The craft, which accidentally landed on its side, defied expectations when it re ...

Japan's Moon landing mission might be over. In an update on May 28, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said that the mission team is not receiving any response to the commands sent to SLIM.

Japan's first Moon lander refuses to die. The spacecraft — dubbed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) — has sent back yet another image three months after it landed upside down on the ...

Japan’s 1st moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...