JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: ...

The Japanese government is considering joining a U.S.-led initiative to develop a space telescope aimed at searching for ...

World's First Successful Transmission of Huge Volume Mission Data Using 1.5 micron Optical Inter-Satellite Communication - ...

Annual Highlights of Results from the International Space Station is coming soon. This new edition contains updated ...

Japan's space agency plans to use satellite images to quickly evaluate damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters.

By 2030, we will face an unprecedented situation: the first major space station in history will cease to exist. But what ...

NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

Japan Airlines is set to introduce riblet-shaped coating, shown to improve fuel efficiency, on its B787 long-haul flights ...

During the Noto Peninsula earthquake that struck on Jan. 1 last year, JAXA's advanced land observation satellite, Daichi-2, conducted emergency observations from the same night. While the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...

KUMAMOTO (Japan), Jan 17 (Bernama-Kyodo) -- Japan’s space agency has signed an agreement with Kumamoto Prefecture to advance the practical application of a programme that estimates earthquake-induced ...