Last night Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft ended its seven-year mission to asteroid Itokawa, bursting into flames over the South Australian outback. The space craft, however, released its sample return ...

Where the United States has NASA, Japan has JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. And one of JAXA’s most famous campuses is located in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, where the ...

Scientists have discovered that a sample of the Ryugu asteroid collected by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft contains the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil, the building blocks ...