Japan's space agency, JAXA, has been knocking it out of the park with small-body exploration missions for decades. They had ...

The navigation satellite aboard the mission was lost. Analyses of the mission presented to Japan’s Ministry of Education, ...

Japan’s space agency JAXA aims to collect pristine samples from comet 289P/Blanpain, potentially unlocking secrets about the ...

We have not yet confirmed the origin of the artificial object (人工物). A projectile was used during the sample collection and it is possible that this is aluminium separated from the sampler horn at ...

SAGAMIHARA, Kanagawa Prefecture--Something was clearly amiss when Shinichiro Sakai, project manager for Japan’s daring moon mission, was a no-show at a news conference called in the wee hours of Jan.

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Ilustration of the Hitomi x-ray astronomy satellite, launched by JAXA Feb. 17 with instruments from NASA and other space agencies. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita WASHINGTON — A senior official with the ...

A cyberattack on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency potentially compromised highly confidential information concerning ...

Makoto Suwa and Ayu Yoneda could fly to the moon as part of NASA's partnership with JAXA on the Artemis program. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Caption: Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches on its debut mission from Uchinoura Space Center on Sept. 14, 2013 carrying the SPRINT-A (Hisaki) space telescope. Credit: JAXA PHOTO WASHINGTON — The Japan ...

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