In 2025, our natural satellite once again becomes the focus of unmanned private missions supported by NASA. The 100th SpaceX flight from the Kennedy Space Center holds special significance because the ...
Last month, a H-2A rocket successfully placed a spy satellite into its planned orbit, and days later JAXA’s unmanned spacecraft SLIM made the world’s first “pinpoint” moon landing then ...
JAXA scientists are looking for evidence of material on the moon's surface that may have come from its mantle, a layer near the satellite's core.
The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...
Among their accomplishments was documenting the historic landing of JAXA's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM ... first robot to traverse Earth's satellite or any celestial body with ...
China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...
From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told ...
The world's first wooden satellite has officially been deployed. Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the timber-clad device was sent to International Space Station last ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched a lunar orbiter satellite, "Kaguya," on September ... It was injected into a polar orbit 100 km above the moon on October 18, 2007, and ...
A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...
the world's first wooden satellite, launched to the ISS on Nov. 5 last year aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was deployed from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Kibo module ...
“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.