Japan is ready to support the United States' lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said on Friday, after the U.S.

A key driver of Japan’s space ambitions is the Basic Plan on Space Policy, which was revised in 2023 to reflect the evolving global space landscape. The updated plan emphasizes ...

Japan's space agency chief has expressed readiness to support the U.S. Artemis lunar missions after the U.S. proposed a ...

Japanese space company ispace has a mission that has slowly made its way to lunar space, and in the coming weeks will attempt to land on the Moon. There’s a crucial event ahead of that ...

Japan is ready to support the United ... has received a rare sample of Moon dust from China's Chang'e 5 mission, which collected 2kg of material from the Moon's volcanic region called Mons Rumker ...

A privately developed Japanese lunar lander has successfully ... If successful, it will join a growing list of recent moon missions by private companies. Firefly Aerospace became the first private ...

The tiny disc is engraved with the UNESCO Constitution's preamble "since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds ...

A private Japanese lunar lander is now in orbit around the moon. The Resilience spacecraft, which was built by the Tokyo-based company ispace, arrived at the moon on schedule Tuesday (May 6 ...

Private Japanese Lunar Lander Enters Orbit Around Moon Ahead of a June Touchdown A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a ...

Japanese carmaker Toyota shows the pressurized Lunar Cruiser Moon rover prototype in action for the first time, to support ...

Cruz at the earlier hearings had demanded a commitment from Isaacman to support the current Artemis moon mission plans. “Existing law directs NASA to establish a ‘sustained human presence in ...

A third private moon lander is getting closer to touchdown on Earth's only satellite this summer after Japan-based company ispace said its robotic mission is now orbiting the Moon. The ispace mission ...