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Japanese Spacecraft Gets Ready To Drop an Asteroid Chunk in Australia

Trevor Ireland 04/12/2020

The fragments of rock and dust will tell us...

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Japanese Probe Hayabusa 2 Touches Down on Asteroid to Collect Samples

Kaori Kaneko and Malcolm Foster 22/02/2019

It is the second Japanese spacecraft to land on...

These images from February 24, 2014, show the first moments of an X-class flare in different wavelengths of light – seen as the bright spot that appears on the left limb of the Sun. Hot solar material can be seen hovering above the active region in the sun's atmosphere, the corona. The images were captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Caption and credit: gsfc/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Spotted: A New Small Clue for the Very Big, Very Old Puzzle About Our Sun

Sarah Iqbal 25/10/2017

The temperature of the Sun's surface is 5500º C....

An artist's conception of Hitomi in space. Source: JAXA

Japan’s Flagship Astronomy Satellite Declared Lost

The Wire Staff 29/04/2016

The satellite's marks the third failure for JAXA in...