As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us.

This includes JAXA's Hayabusa mission, which rendezvoused with the asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2005, and Hayabusa2, which rendezvoused with 162173 Ryugu in 2018. Most recently, NASA's Origins ...

In November 2014, while he was in Japan, the country launched the Hayabusa II, an asteroid mining mission ... He and his team also participated in a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

The Suzuki Hayabusa might be the ex-world’s fastest motorcycle. But over the years, it has also become one of the friendliest sports bikes with almost 200 horsepower on tap. Accordingly ...

Nikon Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to participate in a technology development programme to establish metal Additive ...

Figure 2. Image of the asteroid Ryugu from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission. (Image credit: JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji ...

Nikon Corporation has been selected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to lead the implementation of a key technology development initiative under the Space Strategy Fund (SSF). The ...

After going through more rounds of training and final assessments, the pair will become the 12th and 13th people sent into space by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Yoneda could be ...

Asteroid samples returned by JAXA’s Hayabusa2. Image source: JAXA Back in 2018, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission collected rocky particles from the surface of the asteroid Ryuga. Later, in 2019 ...

Kuninaka Hitoshi, Director General of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Institute of Space and Astronautical ... which contributed to the success of the asteroid exploration missions, ...

November of 2011 was a particularly exciting time for planetary scientists. Russia had launched its Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to land on Mars’ moon Phobos, the first ever such attempt. The spacecraft ...

It was just a couple of weeks ago that the Japan space program, JAXA, announced that its Hayabusa2 probe had successfully completed a maneuver never before attempted in space. The spacecraft ...