Japan's "Moon Sniper," the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), successfully landed on the lunar surface, achieving a pinpoint soft landing about 55 meters from its target.
SLIM will begin the landing descent on Friday (January 20) at around 0:00 JST (8:30 PM IST). The lunar landing is scheduled at 0:20 JST. Japan will become just the fifth country to soft-land on the Moon successfully, after Russia, the US, China and India.
Research on mice which were sent to the International Space Station (ISS) have helped scientists identify a protein that appears to have a major role in the ageing process, suggests a joint study by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Tohoku University.
Japan made it to history books last week when it became the first country to successfully land on the surface of asteroid Ryugu
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