Japan has just landed two rovers on the surface of an asteroid
The country is the first to successfully land rovers on an asteroid’s surface. The journey: The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft set out on its mission to the 3,000-foot-wide Ryugu asteroid …
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A Japanese spacecraft just grabbed more rocks from the asteroid Ryugu
Hayabusa2 has collected a second sample from the asteroid’s surface. It could give us a unique insight into how the early solar system was formed. The procedure: After a few hours of maneuv…
Japan should launch a digital yen to counter China’s digital currency, say lawmakers
Influential lawmakers in Japan’s ruling party are concerned about China’s plan to launch a sovereign digital currency, and have called on the nation to prepare to issue its own in response. “How…
This Factory Robot Learns a New Job Overnight
Inside a modest-looking office building in Tokyo lives an unusually clever industrial robot made by the Japanese company Fanuc. Give the robot a task, like picking widgets out of one box and put…