A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon.

NASA’s orbiter snapped crisp images of where a private spacecraft crashed, revealing telltale marks of disturbed lunar soil.

A few weeks after ispace's second Moon landing attempt ended in a crash, the Japanese company said it had already figured out the problem: the Resilience lander couldn't tell where it was in position ...

A laser navigation error led to the crash of ispace's Resilience lunar lander. The mishap marked ispace's second unsuccessful ...

A malfunction in a laser navigation tool led to the crash of a Japanese company's lunar lander earlier this month, officials confirmed on Tuesday.