Japan's lunar lander still powers away 3 months later. What to know about SLIM mission An image the spacecraft managed to beam back to Earth on Tuesday serves as a vital indication that the device ...

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

JAXA’s SLIM lander ended up in a rather awkward position on the Moon. Image: JAXA The SLIM lunar lander unexpectedly sprung back to life after hibernating during the freezing lunar night ...

Jan. 22 (UPI) --Japanese space officials said on Monday that they hope the lunar lander that arrived on the moon's surface on Friday will regain power once the sun hits the spacecraft's solar ...

JAXA said it's not clear if the craft will work again after another severely cold lunar night. The SLIM landed about 55 meters (60 yards) away from its target, in between two craters near the ...

The uncrewed Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, mission landed just after 10:20 a.m. ET Friday (12:20 a.m. Saturday Japan Standard Time), according to telemetry data shared on JAXA’s ...

SLIM arrived near the moon’s Shioli crater on January 19, making Japan the fifth nation to ever reach the lunar surface. Although JAXA’s lander successfully pulled off an extremely precise ...

JAXA's design team needed to create a lunar probe that was small and light enough to ride to the moon along with the main lander, and also simple and robust enough to work on the rocky, sandy surface.

Japan spacecraft experiences issues after touching down on moon 00:21. One of two engines powering a Japanese moon lander during its descent to the lunar surface Jan. 19 suffered a malfunction of ...

March 28 (UPI) --The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday its SLIM moon lander survived a second lunar night.JAXA said the SLIM -- short for Smart Lander for Investigating Moon -- sent ...