An anomaly has forced the Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 into protective "safe mode" while journeying ...

South African women were inspired by Amahle Jaxa who shared her story behind her full-time bald look in a Dove campaign that ...

Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test ...

Gitai’s Japanese subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct a concept ...

Elon Musk recently shared a video of Japanese engineer and astronaut Koichi Wakata playing a game of solo baseball while floating in microgravity inside the JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

The maximum Arctic sea extent this winter was 13,790,000 square kilometers on March 20, smaller than the previous record low ...

Unlocking the origins of life starts with understanding how simple space molecules turned into complex building blocks. To do ...

Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) probe, making Japan only the fifth country to land an unmanned spacecraft on ...

Dr Naoko Sugita is an adviser to the director of the country’s Earth Observation Research Center and works closely with both NASA and the ESA.

For the first time in a government space agency in the world, JAXA has scrapped the academic requirement for astronauts. By no longer requiring prospective astronauts to have educational ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has selected Spirent Communications to supply its lunar positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) simulation solution. The solution will support JAXA’s ...