Tiny samples from asteroid Bennu are rewriting scientists' understanding of how our Solar System formed. New evidence suggests that Bennu was born where material from the inner and outer Solar System ...

A stunning new image of asteroid Ryugu has left viewers unsettled—not because of the rocky surface, but the eerie, endless ...

The science fiction dream: Landing on an asteroid… and actually daoing it Picture this: Touching down on an asteroid was pure ...

At the end of 2005, the asteroid explorer 'Hayabusa' lost communication with Earth and went missing somewhere in space. Fuel ...

Near earth asteroid mining hinges on type. Bennu and Ryugu samples back water-rich C-types, while no M-type has been sampled.

Hello. This is the Fujitsu PRnote editorial department.Did you know that on July 5, 2026, the asteroid explorer 'Hayabusa2' ...

Japanese space agency JAXA has successfully launched a mission to visit the moons of Mars — and bring a sample back to Earth.

On October 20th its Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission lifted off from Tanegashima, an island in southern Japan. The ...

JAXA said on Wednesday that the MMX spacecraft is in good health and teams are on track to conduct functional checks in the ...

Japan has launched a spacecraft to Mars’s two small moons in a mission that could shed light on their mysterious origins.

JAXA launches the MMX mission to Phobos today on an H3 rocket, aiming to return 10g of Mars moon material to Earth by 2031.

Finding certain complex molecules in large quantities on another world could be a sign of life. Living things build complicated molecules in bulk, and chemistry without life mostly doesn’t.