Japan's space agency JAXA is about to launch a spacecraft to the Mars system that will attempt to grab a sample from one of its two moons, Phobos. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / GSFC / Univ. of Arizona ...
A Mars probe from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) may answer some longstanding questions about the Red Planet and its moons. The mission—dubbed MMX for “Martian Moons eXploration”—aims ...
A Japan-led mission has successfully sent a spacecraft hurtling towards Mars's moon Phobos, marking the beginning of an unprecedented mission to retrieve samples from the Martian system. The unmanned ...
Twelve days from now, Japan's most ambitious deep-space mission ever built will rise from Tanegashima Space Center on a rocket that has itself had a troubled road to this moment. The Japan Aerospace ...