"If we continue to communicate, things will get even hotter, so yesterday I decided to communicate for a while and then take a break again ... lunar night, which is roughly 14.5 Earth days ...

During its previous brief period of re-awakening, Slim was able to study its surroundings in detail and transmit new images to Earth. Jaxa will be hoping that having survived the lunar night it ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ... several earth days, possibly until Thursday. JAXA said it's not clear if the craft will work again after another severely cold lunar night.

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating ... then transmitted them 380,000 kilometers back to Earth. The photos provided definitive ...

The LignoSat probe's biodegradable nature is seen as a potential solution to preserving the Earth's environment, as it is constructed from wood, which does not burn or rot in the vacuum of space ...

About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials noticed the rocket was deviating from its intended axis and so could not be placed into orbit around the Earth. Thus, they abandoned the ...