Japan’s flagship H3 rocket has suffered a fresh setback, with an engine failure in its upper stage cutting short a ...

Rocket Lab launched its 21st and final mission of the year over the weekend, sending a private Japanese Earth-observing ...

The story of Japan’s Kamikaze pilots is one of the most harrowing chapters in the history of World War II. As Japan faced ...

The Japanese space agency JAXA has confirmed that its upcoming Mars mission, which would see a spacecraft traveling to the Martian moon Phobos, has been delayed by two years. The Martian Moons ...

Japan’s lunar achievement isn’t only symbolic—Japan is demonstrating a number of new technologies with its Smart Lander. Japan landed its Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon, or SLIM, craft on the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it tries a precision landing on Friday. The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) is attempting to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is ready to support the United States' lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said on Friday, after the U.S. administration proposed a $6 billion cut to NASA's budget ...

WASHINGTON – Two days after the distinctly American eclipse, President Joe Biden announced that on the next visit to our closest celestial neighbor − the moon − the U.S. will be accompanied by one of ...

International space agencies are gearing up for an intensive launch schedule in 2026, targeting the Moon, Mars and advanced ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The beheading of two Japanese citizens by Islamic State militants is fanning calls to allow Japan's long-constrained military to conduct overseas rescue missions as part of Prime ...