The asteroid 99942 Apophis is headed for a close flyby with Earth on April 13, 2029, and space agencies are coordinating ...

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

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

Hayabusa2 successfully delivered pieces of the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020, marking a triumph for the Japan ...

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

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba estimated Japan's spring leaf flush dates in recent years using data from the Second ...

About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials noticed the rocket was deviating from its intended axis and so could not be placed into orbit around the Earth. Thus, they abandoned the ...

During their mission, Pettit and his crewmates spent 220 days in space, orbiting the Earth 3,520 times and traveling a total ...

Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the timber-clad device was ... It won't deteriorate like it does on Earth, because there's no water or oxygen that would rot or inflame ...