This week, uncover the fate of the latest lunar lander to attempt touchdown on the moon’s surface, see a tower of worms, revisit the Dead Sea Scrolls’ age, and more.

After nearly six months in space, Ispace's Resilience lander will (hopefully) touch down on the lunar surface this week.

The failed lunar mission follows ispace’s first attempt in 2023, which also ended with a bang. That craft, the Hakuto-R lunar ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

On June 5, 2025, a private Japanese spacecraft, Resilience, experienced a sudden loss of communication with mission control ...

A Japanese spacecraft has probably crashed on the Moon, the second failed landing attempt for Tokyo-based private firm ispace ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the ...

A Japanese lunar lander called Resilience failed to softly touch down on the moon’s surface on June 5. The spacecraft’s status is currently unknown after Tokyo-based company ispace lost communication ...

The Resilience lander was carrying a tiny rover, a miniature Swedish cottage, and several science payloads when it crashed ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small ...

Resilience, ispace's second lunar lander, had problems measuring its distance to the surface and could not slow its descent ...

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe ...