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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan achieved an unprecedented "pinpoint" moon landing within 100 metres (328 feet) of target, the space agency said on Thursday, after its probe SLIM's touchdown ...

(Reuters) - Iran has successfully launched its Sorayya satellite into orbit, Iranian state media reported on Saturday. They said the satellite, which belongs to the Iranian Space Organisation, was lau...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan gave the green light for its spacecraft to make a "precision" landing on the moon on Friday, its bid to become the world's fifth country to achieve a moonshot ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it tries a precision landing on Friday. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) i...

By Joe Skipper and Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A fighter pilot poised to become Turkey's first person in orbit and three other astronauts representing Europe were set for launch ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts a precision landing on Friday, in what would be a boost for a space programm...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - A pair of "alien mummies" that mysteriously turned up at the airport in Peru's capital last October have entirely Earthly origins, according to a scientific analysis r...

By Joey Roulette, Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Ryan Woo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. setbacks this week in the race to the moon with China illustrate the risks of NASA's plans to bet on a new strateg...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Boeing-Lockheed joint venture's launch of a new Vulcan rocket this week inaugurated a formidable rival to Elon Musk's SpaceX, a milestone long sought by the U...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander has "no chance" of a soft landing on the moon after springing a propellant leak in the first few hours of its journey in space, the company s...