JAXA shared the news about the delay of the Japanese ... and the launch year for the Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission has been officially revised from FY2024 to FY2026.

Little is known about their geological, mineralogical and geochemical properties. The Japanese space agency JAXA's MMX space probe aims to change this: it will study the two martian moons in detail ...

JAXA's MMX will be its third mission, after the two Hayabusa missions to the asteroid belt, to acquire samples from distant bodies and transport them to Earth. The US space agency, NASA, the European ...

JAXA officials submitted a plan to the science ... A new H-3 rocket will be used to launch the exploration plan dubbed MMX in September 2024. If the project progresses as planned, the probe ...

Japanese researchers have discovered salt minerals on the asteroid Ryugu, suggesting that liquid water may have once been ...