How significant is the Japan-US space exploration alliance? And how is NASA strengthening cooperation with other Asian partners? NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy offers details.

The mission, featuring a lander named Resilience and a tiny rover dubbed Tenacious, is now targeted to launch from Florida's ...

A satellite operated by Japanese company Astroscale has chased down a 15 year-old piece of space junk and taken an up-close image of it. The object is a discarded rocket segment that's about 11m ...

Japanese space ... rocket in orbit (photo) Space debris is a major concern for the space industry. According to ESA, some 40,500 pieces of space junk larger than 4 inches (10 cm) hurtle through ...

The satellite will be handed over to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on June 4 and is expected to be launched into space as early as fall. It took about four years to develop the ...

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes. Credit: ...

The coming ispace lunar landing would mark a paradigm shift in space operations – something Japan has seen coming for over a decade. The company, ispace, is one of the first private entities to ...

As Japan reckons with an increasingly tense security dynamic driven by growing Chinese and North Korean military activity and defense budgets, space capabilities are becoming integral to Japan’s ...

exited and re-entered their spacecraft in a test of commercial space technologies. BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek ...

Japan's space agency said on Monday it had ended its Moon lander operation after losing communication with the uncrewed spaceship last week. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), dubbed ...

Setting its sights on becoming a key player in the global space industry, Japan will set up a 1-trillion ... the domestic space business from 4 trillion yen in 2020 to 8 trillion early in the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Japanese space-sustainability company Astroscale just inked a $90 million deal to take a ...