The Japanese asteroid-sampling spacecraft Hayabusa2 has been forced into protective "safe mode" while journeying through deep space.

However, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has recently completed a successful test of a different type of rocket, known as a rotating detonation engine. The engine relies on an ...

The solid-fuel rocket lifted off from the Uchinoura Space Center in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima Prefecture, at around 9:50 a.m., JAXA said. About 10 minutes after the launch, however, JAXA officials ...

After about 15 minutes, however, JAXA sent a self-destruct signal to the rocket based on the assessment that it was unlikely to fly safely. The H-3 was unable to put the Earth-observation ...

However, JAXA had to delay the launch of a compact, solid-fuel Epsilon S rocket after a recent engine test resulted in a large fire.

Looking like a soccer ball with glowing blue eyes, the Japanese Experiment Module Internal Ball Camera-2 is put to test ...

Japan's space agency, JAXA, aborted an engine test for the Epsilon S rocket after a large fire broke out at the Tanegashima ...

Watch this time-lapse of SpaceX's Crew-10 capsule autonomously docking with the International Space Station on Sunday.

A new crew is officially on their way to the International Space Station, which means fellow astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — who have been in space for 9 months now — are officially one ...

Built by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the timber-clad device was ... "Nobody had ever thought about using wood for rocket science before," Koji Murata, a forest science ...

Through JAXA’s Hayabusa 1 mission ... “While Japan has the capability of launching rockets and constructing spacecraft, we have many non-space industries such as chemical and material ...