One mission would send a state-of-the-art lunar rover, in development by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to the moon aboard a Starship cargo lander as soon as fiscal year 2032.

The autonomous 55-pound (25-kilogram) rover is called IDEFIX and is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) probe that aims to collect samples of the ...

Jaxa produced this render of Slim to show the awkward landing orientation that pointed the solar cells away from the Sun Japan's Moon lander has survived the harsh lunar night, the sunless and ...

NASA partners with private companies to search for lunar water ice, a key factor for future human exploration of the moon ...

JAXA researcher Kawai Yuta says he can't wait ... ispace is part of a private-sector boom in lunar exploration. A lunar rover the firm developed was a finalist in a contest run by entities ...

A public relations official of Toyota, which is developing a manned lunar rover for the NASA-led Artemis program in which JAXA is participating, said, “Please contact JAXA on the matter.” ...

A Japanese startup launched an uncrewed lunar lander from the United States on Dec. 11 in a quest to become the first private-sector company to land a spacecraft on the moon. The craft developed ...

“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.