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Japan's SLIM spacecraft made a strange but precise lunar landing, touching the moon with the tip of its nose as it landed incredibly close its target location.

One of two engines powering a Japanese moon lander during its descent to the surface Jan. 19 suffered a malfunction of some sort just 160 feet above the lunar surface that sharply reduced its power, t

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has transmitted images of the Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (SLIM) to Earth. The photograph was taken…

Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon's surface it was aiming for, although the probe appears to be lying upside-down.

Slim probe landed metres rather than kilometres from its target, but a rocket malfunction has left it in an undignified position

Image shows JAXA’s SLIM Lunar Probe achieved high-precision Moon landing Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

Japan's SLIM mission attempted a new landing technique, and it went face-first on the Moon. The ambitious mission of Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) with the SLIM spacecraft already touched down on the Moon, but it did not go the way they expected as it landed face-first in their attempt.

Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to land on the moon, but its spacecraft ended up in an awkward position, with its engine tip hurtling toward

 Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for, in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system — although the probe appears to be lying upside-down.

Welcome to Computing's fortnightly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at AWS' big investments in Japan, China's about-face on gaming regulation and a leopard in an unfortunate location.