Japan Space Agency

Asteroid Ryugu to eat a bullet from JAXA's Hayabusa 2 probe on 22 February

The grab-and-go asteroid mission will be broadcasted live from JAXA's control room on 22 February.

Asteroid Ryugu's rubbly surface gets captured in close-ups by two jumping rovers

The rovers, each about the size of a circular cookie tin, don’t have wheels but jump around the asteroid.

Japan's JAXA to put an astronaut on moon by 2030

NASA and other global space agencies are working hard on sending astronauts to Mars by the 2030s. In March, the US Congress passed a bill, signed by President Donald Trump, directing NASA to send a manned mission to Mars in 2033.

Communication failure forces the Japanese space agency to abort the launch of its mini rocket

Japan’s space agency (Jaxa) has had to abort the launch of its mini rocket, the SS-520, yesterday.