Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

Space

Japan’s Moon mission finally takes off after three launch delays

Japan has successfully launched a rocket carrying its XRISM satellite and a lunar lander just weeks after India's historic lunar landing.

7 September 2023

Space

Japan scrubs launch of lunar landing mission for third time

Japan wants to be the fifth country to land a spacecraft on the Moon, but it will have to wait a little longer.

28 August 2023

Mobility

What life will be like inside NASA's new Moon buggy

NASA's prototype lunar rover has been tested in the Arizona desert as part of the Artemis programme aiming to send humans back to the Moon.

27 October 2022

Tech News

Russia to quit the ISS after 2024 and build its own space station

Russia had stopped cooperating with the ISS in protest against Western sanctions imposed after its invasion of Ukraine.

26 July 2022

Mobility

Mercury mission captures its first images of the 'Swift Planet'

The ESA and JAXA mission has already had a striking view of the planet closest to the Sun, around which it will have to orbit in 2025.

4 October 2021

Australia

First samples of asteroid subsurface recovered in Australian outback

Japan's space agency has made history by successfully capturing and returning subsurface material from an asteroid for the first time.

6 December 2020