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Japan's SLIM lunar lander stuck the landing—upside down
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoEh. Close enough. Here’s the good news: Japan’s space agency confirmed its historic Smart Lander for...
Japan's space programs and moon missions
Reuters via Yahoo News· 4 months agoBy Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it tries a precision landing on Friday....
NASA and Japan Team Up for Unprecedented Martian Moon Mission
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJAXA is getting ready to visit Mars’s two moons, but Japan’s space agency is no longer going alone....
Scientists Discovered the Possible ‘Seeds of Life’ in Asteroid Matter
Popular Mechanics via AOL· 4 months agoAsteroid Matter May Contain 'Seeds of Life'Jonathan Knowles - Getty Images The idea that the origins...
Mission hints space rocks could have made life possible on Earth
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSpace rocks could have made life on Earth possible, according to a breakthrough new study that...
New samples from Japanese mission could prove Earth’s water came from asteroids
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Japanese mission has confirmed the asteroid Ryugu is an uncontaminated example of the type of...
NASA joins Japan's mission to collect the 1st samples of Mars moon Phobos
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency signed a deal on April 17 to cooperate on a mission...
NASA can't open its OSIRIS-REx asteroid capsule yet, but the outside alone holds more than enough...
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOSIRIS-REx curation team members at NASA’s Johnson Space Center begin the process of removing and...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft changed how we think about asteroids. Here's how.
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoNASA's OSIRIS-REx mission taught astronomers how little they know about space rocks. They might be...
Salty 'peanut' asteroid may reveal where Earth got its water
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoTiny salt grains discovered in samples returned by the Hayabusa mission could indicate that the...