Japan’s space agency released on Jan. 25 the first photo of its lunar probe making a successful moon landing. The remarkable photo was snapped by LEV-2, one of the two robots released from the ...

a Japanese moon landing mission chose the landing spot according to “where we really want to land” instead of “where we can land.” Japan's SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) probe ...

In 2018, JAXA’s asteroid probe Hayabusa2 also succeeded ... we may well see a Toyota “lunar cruiser” and Japanese astronauts rolling over the surface of the moon as part of Artemis VI ...