SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Anne McClain, commander; and Nichole Ayers, pilot; along with mission specialists JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Takuya Onishi, ...

Since completing its main mission, the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 is now on its way to an additional asteroid. It is much smaller than expected.

Following its successful collection of material from the asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2019, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off its precious ...

Akatsuki had completed its regular two-year operation that started in April 2016, after which its operation was extended to ...

The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...

NASA; JAXA The Milky Way appears above Earth's bright atmospheric glow in this Aug. 23, 2025, photograph from the International Space Station as it ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

Hayabusa2, operated by the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA), is on an extended mission after successfully returning samples from the much larger asteroid Ryugu in 2020. With fuel to spare, ...

While many in the industry were at first skeptical of NASA’s goal to put resupply flights to the International Space Station ...

The asteroid is believed to be now 11 meters (36 feet) across, spinning on its axis every five minutes, and has a peculiar composition. The discovery has massive implications for the mission. One of ...

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.