Suwa, who joined the space agency in 2023, is the eighth Japanese astronaut to be assigned to a long-duration mission.

A series of cyberattacks on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency resulted in a mass data leak of more than 10,000 files that includes classified material. Attacks occurred in June 2023 and multiple ...

Astronomers used the XRISM mission to separate signals and analyze the extreme gravitational forces at work in active ...

Yasuo Ishii, senior vice president of JAXA, said at the Spacetide conference July 8 that commercial space station technologies will be among those included in the Space Strategic Fund. Credit: ...

Ilustration of the Hitomi x-ray astronomy satellite, launched by JAXA Feb. 17 with instruments from NASA and other space agencies. Credit: JAXA/Akihiro Ikeshita WASHINGTON — NASA and the Japan ...

A satellite's protective cover may have doomed Japan's latest H3 rocket mission, with the space agency now investigating if the shield separated abnormally and crippled the vehicle in flight. Japan ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said Sunday it has postponed the launch of the seventh unit of its H3 liquid fuel rocket, which was scheduled for Tuesday, due to a bad weather ...

Toyota and the Japanese space agency JAXA have inked an agreement to build a hydrogen-powered lunar rover, which astronauts will be able to drive around the Moon to explore potential resources there.