LignoSat, the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's ( JAXA) Kibo ...

See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, will make its sixth flyby of Mercury in January 2025. This maneuver will help the spacecraft enter orbit ...

Partly funded by the Japanese space agency JAXA, the January mission will see ispace’s lander touch down near Mare Frigoris, a basaltic plain located in the moon’s northern hemisphere ...

In January, Furukawa made headlines when he publicly apologized for data fabrication in research conducted by a JAXA team he had led. The space agency issued a warning to Furukawa over the issue, ...

Thales Alenia Space (TAS) has secured an 862 million euro contract to design and construct Argonaut, a European lander set for regular missions to the Moon ... Continue Reading → ...

Japan's space agency plans to use satellite images to quickly evaluate damage from earthquakes and other natural disasters. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, has said it expects the ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Scientists built the spacecraft in the UK, and it launched in October 2018. This flyby marked the final ...