TOKYO, June 6 — Japanese company ispace said its uncrewed lunar lander likely crashed onto the lunar surface during its touchdown attempt today, marking another failure two years after an unsuccessful inaugural mission.

SHANGHAI, April 23 — Preliminary plans for the China and Russia-led International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) include building a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface, a presentation by a Chinese space official today showed.

PUTRAJAYA, Feb 13 — Malaysia is on course to ratify space treaties under the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Uncopuos), Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Chang Lih Kang said.

KYOTO, Nov 5 — The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space today, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

WASHINGTON, Sept 12 — Two astronauts from a SpaceX capsule in Earth’s orbit carried out the world’s first private spacewalk today, tethered to the Crew Dragon spacecraft, in the vacuum of space, while two others watched from inside, hundreds of miles from Earth.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 3 — The space domain represents an exciting new area of potential collaboration between India and Malaysia, says Indian High Commissioner to Malaysia B.N.