Temperature distribution over the shape model of asteroid Ryugu, using data taken by the Hayabusa2 TIR thermal imager on August 1, 2018 (Okada et al, Nature 2020).

Are primitive asteroids “fluffy”?

Is the history of Mars etched in the grains of its moons?

Artist impression of Dragonfly on the surface of Titan. (Johns Hopkins APL)

Measuring the waves through Titan: ISAS builds a seismometer for NASA’s Dragonfly mission

Microdroplets containing a fluorescent dye, showing the capability of microdroplets to act as primitive compartments (credit: Tony Jia, ELSI)

Building the first cells for the origins of life

Asteroid Ryugu from an altitude of 6km. Image was captured with the Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic (ONC-T) on July 20, 2018. (JAXA, University of Tokyo, Kochi University, Rikkyo University, Nagoya University, Chiba Institute of Technology, Meiji University, University of Aizu, AIST.)

Hayabusa2: mapping Ryugu’s extraordinary past

Artist impression of the MMX spacecraft orbiting Phobos. Yellow indicates regions where cold flow is expected to be strongest (credit: Baresi, Ballouz, JAXA).

The Shifting Sands of Phobos

False colour image of the nightside of Venus captured with the IR2 camera on Akatsuki at 1.735-µm (blue) and 2.26-µm (red) and mix of the two (green). On the nightside of Venus, IR2 observes infrared light coming from the lower atmosphere through clouds, and the shadow of the clouds can be seen in the image. Here, bright and dark are reversed to show clouds in whitish colour.(Credit: JAXA / PLANET-C Project Team)

Akatsuki seeks the source of Venus’s extreme weather

Image credit: ESA

Save the date! Q&A ahead of the launch of BepiColombo to Mercury in October

Artist impression of the SPICA infrared telescope (credit: JAXA).

SPICA: A telescope to tell our history in the Universe

Artist impression of the Earth's magnetosphere [c. JAXA]

Understanding the aurora: the Grand Challenge Initiative – Cusp

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