The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the “Full Earth-Rise”*1 using the onboard High Definition Television (HDTV) of ...

Japan's space agency says it has set up a team to send an unmanned mission to the surface of the moon, possibly within the next 10 years. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

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JAXA would like to express our sincere gratitude to all of you who sent us supporting messages for the KAGUYA and its project team since we started to request messages on July 17. We have received ...

The most sophisticated spacecraft to study the Moon in more than 30 years was launched today by JAXA, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. Called Selene, the mission will help scientists ...

Japan's space agency said the mid-August launch of its lunar orbiter will be postponed due to a technical glitch, delivering another setback to the much-delayed probe. Subscribe to read this story ...