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 ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

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 ...

JAXA officials then questioned the researchers ... the ISS to replace astronaut Koichi Wakata because his abilities in space were different from his responsibility as a researcher.

On Jan. 19, Japan's Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) spacecraft reached the lunar surface. The mission was Japan's first ...

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 ...