30% Less Than Average: Antarctic Sea Ice Levels Lowest Ever Recorded
The ice levels were measured at almost 30% less than the average over the previous ten years. The Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest…
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NASA To Welcome Japanese Astronaut Aboard the Lunar Gateway Outpost
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met in Tokyo on Monday, May 23, 2022, where they announced progress on collaboration for human…
BepiColombo Captures Stunning Mercury Images During Close Gravity Assist Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby last…
Japan Space Agency: Why We’re Exploring the Moons of Mars
Dr. Ryuki Hyodo shares the science behind JAXA’s upcoming MMX mission to the Martian moons, and the unique features of this journey to Mars’s domain….
Dramatic NASA Satellite Video Examines Hurricane Ida’s Eye in 3D
Hurricane Ida off the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 hurricane on the morning of Sunday, August 29th at 10:13am (CDT) right before making landfall….
Japan’s Mission to Mars’ Moon Phobos Will Bring a Sample Home by 2029
Japan’s space agency (JAXA) is gearing up for its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, with plans to have a sample from Mars’ moon Phobos return…
Japan’s Martian Moons eXploration Mission Will Return a Sample From Mars’ Moon Phobos
The role of the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission in the new era of Martian life exploration. The surface of the Martian moon, Phobos, is…
NASA and Japan Formalize Lunar Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program
NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar Gateway, an orbiting outpost that commercial and international partners will build together. This agreement…
Next Target Asteroid for Hayabusa2 Photographed by Subaru Telescope
On December 10, 2020 (Hawaiʻi Standard Time), the Subaru Telescope imaged the small asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Hayabusa2’s extended mission. The positional data…
World’s First Gas Sample From Deep Space Returned With Asteroid Ryugu Material From Hayabusa2
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the gas collected from the sample container inside the re-entry capsule of the asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2,…
Relaxing Inside the International Space Station’s Window to the World
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Expedition 64 astronaut Soichi Noguchi relaxes at the end of the work day inside the seven-windowed cupola, the International Space Station’s…
NASA to Study Ryugu Asteroid Sample Collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 in New Astromaterials Research Lab
Just weeks after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a successful touch-and-go grab of samples from asteroid Bennu, researchers at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston are looking…
Asteroid Ryugu Sample Collected in Space and Delivered to Earth – Now NASA Astrobiologists Prepare to Probe It
On December 6 local time (December 5 in the United States), Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 dropped a capsule to the ground of the Australian Outback from…
Hera Team Congratulates Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Hayabusa2’s Asteroid Sample Return
The team behind ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense congratulates JAXA for returning Hayabusa2’s capsule to Earth laden with pristine asteroid samples. They look…
Australia-Bound Asteroid Sample From Japan’s Hayabusa2 Mission May Reveal Life’s Origins
A Japanese space mission will deliver samples collected from asteroid Ryugu in a capsule to the outback desert of Woomera in South Australia this Sunday…
SpaceX Crew Dragon Docks to Space Station, Hatches Open Soon
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi arrived at the International Space Station Monday, as the…
Successful Falcon 9 Launch Sends NASA’s SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts on Way to ISS
An international crew of astronauts is en route to the International Space Station following a successful launch on the first NASA-certified commercial human spacecraft system…
Japanese HTV-9 Cargo Ship Completes Space Station Resupply Mission
Eleven years after the launch of the first H-II Transfer cargo vehicle (HTV) to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA’s) HTV-9…
