Japan has pulled off a technical and geopolitical milestone, hauling rare earth-rich mud from the deep Pacific seabed in a ...

Sediment containing rare earth was retrieved from ocean depths of 6,000 meters (about 20,000 feet) on a Japanese test mission ...

Japan's government said on Monday that it has successfully retrieved rare-earth-rich seabed mud for the first time from ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is ready to support the United States' lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said on Friday, after the U.S. administration proposed a $6 billion cut to NASA's budget ...

Japan’s “Moon Sniper” robotic explorer landed on the lunar surface, but the mission may end prematurely since the spacecraft’s solar cell is not generating electricity, the Japan Aerospace Exploration ...

Japan resumes supplying the International Space Station (ISS) after five years, now with a new cargo ship launched on its H3 ...

The Japanese space agency JAXA has confirmed that its upcoming Mars mission, which would see a spacecraft traveling to the Martian moon Phobos, has been delayed by two years. The Martian Moons ...

Japan has quietly closed the book on Akatsuki, a spacecraft that spent more time around Venus than anyone first expected. The Japan Aerospace Explorat.

The mission was the world's first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at such a depth, the government said, as Japan seeks to ...