Japan's space agency is planning to shoot a hole in a comet, dig out material frozen since before the planets formed, and ...

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

KUMAMOTO — The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) is cooperating with the Kumamoto prefectural government to develop a program that quickly estimates damage to residential buildings by using ...

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 ...

The Moon is the closest celestial body to the Earth and preserves information from the early Solar System. Understanding the evolution of water environments on the Moon can therefore contribute to ...

TOKYO Hopping on a supersonic plane for a 3 1/2 hour flight from Tokyo to Singapore? It sounds too good to be true. But such flights could become a reality in a decade or two, given the progress being ...

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

TOKYO -- Hopping on a supersonic plane for a 3 1/2 hour flight from Tokyo to Singapore? It sounds too good to be true. But such flights could become a reality in a decade or two, given the progress ...

In December 2020, Hayabusa2 successfully delivered samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth. This event as well as few more subsequent successful performances made it clear to where in the global space ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki -- What happens to a person physically and mentally when they are forced to live in a confined area for an extended period of time? The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) aims ...

Those wanting to shoot for the stars with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and apply for the astronaut program no longer have to be rocket scientists or the classroom equivalent. For the first ...

Japan's space agency has its sights on unexplored asteroids as far away as Jupiter, a project that at one level draws on centuries of sail science. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency this month ...