Japan's space agency JAXA has teamed up with West Japan Railway Company to apply the latter's AI-powered failure-prediction ...

Preparations for the launch of the new Earth observation satellite EarthCARE (Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer) at ...

Thanks to human ingenuity and zero gravity, we reap important benefits from science in space. Consider smart phones with ...

The European Space Agency has three seats reserved for future Artemis missions in exchange for technological contributions to ...

The space-based glass samples were examined using neutrons, X-rays, and powerful microscopes and could be used in optical ...

Other forms of turbulence can come from airflow disruptions from ground obstacles like buildings and mountains, common during ...

JAXA said on the social media platform X that SLIM's key functions are still working despite repeated harsh cycles of temperature changes. The agency said it plans to closely monitor the lander's ...

BepiColombo, launched in October 2018 on an Ariane 5 rocket from a French spaceport in South America, seeks to study the ...

The first launch of the Ariane 6 is expected in the first half of July as the vehicle takes shape at its French Guiana launch ...

To travel inwards, spacecraft need to lose speed, and that means using planets’ gravity and accurate burns to be in the right ...

For the first time in a government space agency in the world, JAXA has scrapped the academic requirement for astronauts. By no longer requiring prospective astronauts to have educational ...

There have been Super Low Altitude Test Satellites (SLATS). Tsubame was a JAXA satellite intended todemonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (VLEO, below 200 km), using ion engines to counteract ...