28 September 2015
Leaders of World Space Agencies To Converge for IAC 2015 in Jerusalem
..., Administrator of NASA, Xu Dazhe, Administrator of China’s CNSA, Igor Komarov, Head of Russia’s ROSOSMOS, Naoki Okumura, President of Japan’s JAXA, and Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space Agency. “As the incoming Director General...
07 December 2015
Massive baby galaxies nestled in dark matter filaments found by ALMA
...led by Hideki Umehata, a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science staying at the ... Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). Observations confirmed that the young monstrous galaxies...
18 January 2016
Does a second black hole lurk near the centre of the Milky Way?
... to be detected. Using the Nobeyama 45-m Telescope in Japan and the ASTE Telescope in Chile, a team led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor... at Keio University in Japan used both radio telescopes to observe this mysterious object...
10 February 2016
Igor Ashurbeyli Awarded UNESCO Medal
... Medal receipients for contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies include Professor Isamu Akasaki (Japan), 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, Professor emeritus of Nagoya University, Professor of Meijo University, Member of The...
08 October 2018
A round-up of news from this years IAC
...presence at the IAC to sign two further agreements with Israel and Japan. For SpaceIL’s up and coming mission to the Moon, which ...venture. While already formal partners, NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) agreed to strengthen ties...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
New data from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission has revealed that the sizeable space rock ...by Tatsuaki Okada at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) in Japan, have now shown that the asteroid’s boulders which litter the surface, and their...
