HTV-X capsule is designed to hang around in space after delivering cargo to ISS Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is celebrating after its new cargo carrier docked at the International Space ...

A viral image circulating online claims that 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar comet discovered in July 2025, was captured and publicly released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

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

Japan is putting its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft through a series of tests ahead of its launch to Mars next year. MMX is a complex mission to collect samples from the moon Phobos and ...

Work continues on designs for robots that can help assist the first human explorers on the moon in over half a century. One ...

Evaluating solar cell performance through in-orbit demonstration TOKYO, /PRNewswire/ -- Ricoh Company, Ltd. has announced that its perovskite sol ...

XRISM data might revolutionize our understanding of X-ray sources and X-ray astronomy. You cannot run the 'Tokaido Shinkansen' bullet train on tracks built for steam locomotives. Similarly, you cannot ...

Gitai's robotic arm could operate autonomously on the Moon. Credit: Gitai Gitai’s Japanese subsidiary has been awarded a contract by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to conduct a concept ...

Japan on Oct. 1 merged three agencies to form the new Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). JAXA absorbed the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (ISAS), which conducted space and ...