The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is planning to send a tiny transforming ball-shaped robot to the lunar surface. Once it arrives, the device will gather data for the development of a ...

JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signed a joint statement Sept. 24 reaffirming plans to cooperate on lunar exploration, including Japanese contributions to the ...

We have not yet confirmed the origin of the artificial object (人工物). A projectile was used during the sample collection and it is possible that this is aluminium separated from the sampler horn at ...

NASA's LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) has twice transmitted a laser pulse to a cookie-sized retroreflector aboard JAXA's (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) SLIM lander on the moon and received a ...

Caption: Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches on its debut mission from Uchinoura Space Center on Sept. 14, 2013 carrying the SPRINT-A (Hisaki) space telescope. Credit: JAXA PHOTO WASHINGTON — The Japan ...

Closeup of a six-wheeled white moon rover transformer toy with the words "jaxa" and "toyota" written on its side, in front of the box it's sold in. It can now be revealed that Japan's proposal for a ...

JAXA released an outline in July of the damage caused by these cyberattacks. At the time, officials said they had not received any reports of significant disruptions to the operations of the entities ...

It's unlikely that the first Epsilon S rocket will be able to launch by March next year as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Thursday. Holding a news conference in the wake ...

Toyota and the Japanese space agency JAXA have inked an agreement to build a hydrogen-powered lunar rover, which astronauts will be able to drive around the Moon to explore potential resources there.

Jan. 22 (UPI) --Japanese space officials said on Monday that they hope the lunar lander that arrived on the moon's surface on Friday will regain power once the sun hits the spacecraft's solar cells ...