NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 5 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Jan. 14, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX ...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...
Astronomers used the XRISM mission to separate signals and analyze the extreme gravitational forces at work in active ...
Suwa, who joined the space agency in 2023, is the eighth Japanese astronaut to be assigned to a long-duration mission.
Japan has selected its first new astronaut candidates in more than 13 years in preparation for future missions to the moon with NASA's Artemis program. Hiroshi Yamakawa, president of the Japan ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, says that the second stage of the eighth H3 rocket, and the satellite it was carrying, most likely reentered the Earth's atmosphere within about four ...
Ilustration of the Hitomi x-ray astronomy satellite, launched by JAXA Feb. 17 with instruments from NASA and other space agencies. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita WASHINGTON — NASA and the Japan ...
Ilustration of the Hitomi x-ray astronomy satellite, launched by JAXA Feb. 17 with instruments from NASA and other space agencies. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita WASHINGTON — A senior official with the ...