Japan has successfully launched a climate monitoring satellite using its H-2A rocket. This marks the rocket's 50th and final ...

With lessons learned from their first attempt, Kyoto University scientists hope a second CubeSat made of magnolia will spark ...

Japan has launched a climate change monitoring satellite to strengthen global observation of greenhouse gases and ...

Climate scientists in the United States are to be cut off from satellite data measuring the amount of sea ice — a sensitive ...

A Japanese H3 rocket launched the Michibiki 6 navigation satellite early Sunday morning (Feb. 2), the nation's first liftoff of 2025.

Tokyo — The world's first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft is scheduled to be carried into space off on a SpaceX rocket in September ...

For the satellite, Murata tested three wood types: Erman’s birch — which is commonly found in East Asia — Japanese cherry and magnolia obovata — a species native to Japan.

Japan's flagship H3 rocket put a key component of Japan's satellite navigation program to eventually wean the nation off its dependence on foreign satellites into orbit on Feb. 2 on its fifth mission.

The Japanese government will launch a satellite carrying an optical telescope to strengthen its surveillance capacity in outer space. In cyberspace, the government will take measures to prepare ...

An ultra-small Japanese satellite is being spotted from the ground, thanks to a set of lights that flash brightly in Morse code. The novel cubesat, known as FITSAT-1, has been orbiting Earth since ...

Japan says it is prepared to shoot down a North Korean spy satellite rocket if it needs to. Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told the Japanese military on Saturday to make the “necessary ...

An uninhabited Japanese island has sparked mysterious conspiracy theories after it vanished from satellite images. Esanbehanakitakojima Island was once used to mark Japan’s territorial waters ...