A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, although the probe appears to be lying upside-down.

TOKYO, Japan — Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing ...

Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but it appears to be upside-down By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press | Posted - Jan. 27, 2024 at 8:28 a.m.

Japan managed to soft land a spacecraft on the surface of the moon, this makes them the 5th nation to accomplish this feat. They did not land on the spacecraft’s feet and instead rolled, probably ...

Media reports that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s house displayed an upside-down American flag, a traditional sign of political dissent, after the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 ...

I didn’t feel upside down, but there were some differences that still made the South Pole feel flipped over from what I was used to. As someone who loves looking for the Moon, I noticed that the face ...

Its Hayabusa2 spacecraft, launched in 2014, touched down twice on the 900-meter-long (3,000-foot-long) asteroid Ryugu, collecting samples that were returned to Earth.