As the asteroid lines up for a planetary flyby in 2029, space agencies are coordinating to conduct some groundbreaking ...

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

When Watanabe began cooperating with JAXA for research in fiscal 2016 ... the lunar surface marked by weaker gravity than found on Earth. Providing a clue to the solution was the way newly ...