Japan’s space program will take a giant leap forward as the country is set to land its first astronaut on the moon as early as 2028 in a U.S.-led mission. At a meeting in Washington on April 10 ...

US President Joe Biden revealed during a press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida that a Japanese ...

Makoto Kuroda, Japan financials analyst at Goldman Sachs, says incoming Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is seen as the ...

In Japan's first astronaut recruiting pitch since 2008, veteran Koichi Wakata is asking young people to shoot for the stars--or at least the moon. Japan will recruit astronauts who will be the ...

Performing are Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and STS-130 crew members Terry Virts, Kay Hire, and Steve Robinson. Video: NASA (02:25) Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our ...

But what exactly are the risks? Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai this week may have briefly grabbed news headlines by announcing he had stretched a staggering 9cm (3.5in) in just three weeks ...

A possibility for a Japanese astronaut to land on the Moon is to be determined through consultations in the future TOKYO, November 18. /TASS/. Japan plans to extend its involvement with the ...

Crew-2 will launch a four-person crew: NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet. The four space ...

Moghbeli previously shared what it’s like to to cut hair on the ISS with a time-lapse video of her trimming Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa’s hair. “Up here on the space station ...

Takao Doi, a Japanese astronaut and a program-specific professor at Kyoto University, speaks about the world's first-ever wooden satellite "LignoSat" during an interview in Kyoto, western Japan, on ...

NASA - or SpaceX - could use cutting-edge virtual reality gear to train allied astronauts stretching ... [+] from the U.S. to Europe and Japan in advance of and across the 2020s Moon landings.

Japan and India are planning to send a probe ... Pesquet described his first test of LUNA as surprising. He and fellow ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer rehearsed walking on the lunar surface, wearing ...