Japan’s space program will take a giant leap forward as the country is set to land its first astronaut on the moon as early ...

A morphable moon robot operated for 100 minutes in 2024, allowing investigators to get images of an upside-down spacecraft on the lunar surface.

A tiny, ball-shaped rover has transformed how scientists study the moon. During Japan’s historic first lunar landing, this morphable robotic explorer rolled across the lunar surface, capturing images ...

An autonomous rolling rover that was able to transform from a sphere into a robot successfully explored a small part of the moon in 2024.

A palm-sized shape-shifting rover helped scientists understand what went wrong with Japan’s SLIM moon landing by capturing an image of the spacecraft lying upside down on the lunar surface.

This image provided by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/Takara Tomy/Sony Group Corporation/Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic ...

If the ‘SLIM’ lander touches down successfully next month, it would make Japan only the fifth country to have landed a functioning probe on the Moon, after the ...

There's a new space race to the moon, and this time the ambitions are not just to visit but to stay. NASA's Artemis program aims to establish a long-term human presence on the lunar surface in the ...