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 ...

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 ...

In 2007, a lunar orbiter built by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) – called the SELENE (short for the Selenological and Engineering Explorer) – went into orbit around the moon. Despite the ...

Japan's space agency, Jaxa, has found a large cave at the base of the Moon's Marius Hill and according to the agency, it could be turned into a base for exploration on the lunar surface. The discovery ...

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. The Selenological and ...

Japan is set to launch its first lunar orbiter this summer, but exploring the moon is just part of the mission. The other goal is to catch up with China, the new leader in Asia's space race. Japan's ...