If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Christmas brought a nice accomplishment for Japan’s SLIM space probe, which entered ...
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 ...
Japan lands on Moon but glitch threatens mission American lunar mission destroyed over Pacific Ocean The Slim mission - also nicknamed "Moon Sniper" for its use of precision-landing technologies ...
There is a possibility that clues about the origin of the Moon can be provided since an unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data after analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a Japan space ...
Japan may yet manage to salvage its Moon lander, the country's space agency Jaxa says - if sunlight hits it in the right place. The Slim spacecraft was turned off just three hours after its ...
Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon early Saturday. However, space officials said they need more time to analyze whether the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM ...