Astronaut Yui, colleagues return to Earth after 5-month space station stay
Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and his two colleagues at the International Space Station returned to Earth on Friday evening after completing a nearly five-month mission. Yui, 45, landed on the plains of Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft after serving as flight engineer on the ...
Scientists from the United States, Japan and China are racing to perfect satellite technology that could one day measure greenhouse gas emissions from space, potentially transforming the winner into the world's first climate cop. Monitoring a single country's net emissions from above could not only ...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces that Japan will remain part of the U.S.-led International Space Station project when it is extended until 2024.
Hayabusa2 probe set to swing by Earth at start of asteroid odyssey
Japan’s Hayabusa2 makes its closest approach to Earth as it performs a swing-by to set it on a course toward its target asteroid.
A new law clears U.S. companies to own what they mine from asteroids and other celestial bodies, ending a legal quandary that had overshadowed technical and financial issues facing the startups, industry officials said on Tuesday. The Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, signed by President ...
European satellite set to test method to find ripples across space, time
An experimental satellite slated for launch Wednesday will test a technique to detect ripples in space and across time, adding a new perspective for viewing and understanding the universe. From a vantage point 93 million miles (150 million km) from Earth, the European-built spacecraft, known ...
Japanese H-IIA rocket carries first commercial satellite into orbit
An H-IIA rocket carrying a Canadian communications satellite lifted off Tuesday, marking the first time a commercial satellite has been launched into space by the Japanese-built platform. The rocket, launched at 3:50 p.m. from the Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, has an improved second-stage ...
Astronomers have taken the first images of a planet still in formation, a discovery expected to shed light on how giant planets manage to beef up early in their lives, research published on Wednesday showed. Astronomers used a telescope in Arizona to peer at a ...
JAXA may develop new life-support system for International Space Station
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency may provide a new life-support system for the International Space Station so Japanese astronauts can continue participating in the orbiting laboratory through 2024, people close to the matter said Saturday. The development of the Environmental Control and Life Support System ...
Deep space mining seen costing $27 billion, or half the price of huge Aussie gas terminal
Getting a mine up and running on the moon or an asteroid would cost less than building the biggest gas terminals on Earth, according to research presented to a forum of company executives and NASA scientists. A mission to Ceres, a dwarf planet 257 million ...
Revolution in space technology evolution awaits launch in New Zealand paddock
The next revolution in space, making humdrum what was long the special preserve of tax-funded giants like NASA, will be launching next year from a paddock in New Zealand's remote South Island. The rocket launch range is not just New Zealand's first of any kind, ...
Architect pair tap 3-D printing, ice to share top NASA prize for Mars habitat design
In the coming decades, as humans leave Earth to expand the bounds of space travel, astronauts are sure to find themselves for the first time in habitats other than the International Space Station. Clearly NASA has this in mind, as it awarded a group of ...
