Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos passed control of the orbiting lab over to Takuya Onishi of ...

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

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

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.

NASA’s Lucy mission is about to fly past asteroid Donaldjohanson, a strange, elongated rock in the main belt. While this ...

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

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 ...

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

JAXA small lunar landing demonstrator "SLIM ". Watch how it travels to the moon's surface in this animated explainer. Credit: JAXA ...

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

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and survive a fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Among meteorites, one ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit and two cosmonaut colleagues will return to Earth from the International Space Station on Saturday ...