Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) aims to demonstrate “landing where it is desired to land,” pin-point landing technique and obstacle detection technique. Credit: JAXA…
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ESA’s EarthCARE mission carries a suite of instruments to answer some critical scientific questions related to the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting…
This conceptual image illustrates the types of organic molecules found in the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Organics are the building…
Illustration of Gateway in lunar orbit with contributions from international partners. Credit: NASA/Alberto Bertolin During an event hosted by NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA Although it has been nearly two years since Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid…
Illustration showing a close-up of the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), one of the elements of Gateway. Credit: NASA President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime…
Artist impression of BepiColombo flying by Mercury on October 1, 2021. The spacecraft makes nine gravity assist maneuvers (one of Earth, two of Venus, and…
Artist impression of the MMX spacecraft descending to the surface of Phobos (based on the spacecraft design in FY2019). Credit: JAXA Dr. Ryuki Hyodo shares…
[embedded content]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…
Phobos imaged by HiRISE. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Japan’s space agency (JAXAFormed in 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was born through the merger…
Mars is kept company by two cratered moons—an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The role of…
Illustration of Gateway in lunar orbit with contributions from international partners. Credit: NASA NASA and the Government of Japan have finalized an agreement for the lunar…
Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Credit: JAXA The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has confirmed that the gas collected from the sample container inside…
View of asteroid Ryugu from Hayabusa 2. Credit: JAXA, University of Tokyo & collaborators Just weeks after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a successful touch-and-go grab of samples…
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…
Hayabusa2’s reentry capsule forms a fireball in the desert sky over Australia’s Woomera Prohibited Area as it arrives back on Earth on 5 December 2020,…
Scientists at Woomera conduct a ‘dress rehearsal’ for finding and collecting the Hayabusa2 sample capsule when it lands. Credit: Trevor Ireland, ANU A Japanese space…
The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four Commercial Crew astronauts is pictured approaching the International Space Station for a docking. Credit: NASA NASA astronauts Michael…
Japan’s HTV-9 resupply ship is on its own after being released from the Canadarm2 robotic arm completing a three-month cargo mission at the station. Credit:…