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Satellite operator ICEYE's headquarters in Espoo, Finland. One of its satellites, which provides radar imagery to Western governments and militaries, was approached by a Russian military satellite last month.
WORLD
Nov 5, 2026
Russia may have rehearsed attack on Western satellite, specialist says
A Russian satellite had been “intentionally maneuvering dangerously close to a commercial satellite” in mid-October.
Japanese astronaut Ayu Yoneda is currently training at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for future space missions.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 3, 2026
今日吃瓜 newest female astronaut wants to speak Japanese on the moon
Ayu Yoneda, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s youngest astronaut, is mission-ready for her first flight.
Astronomer Mareki Honma, who participated in the project that captured the first image of a black hole, will receive Medals of Honor this autumn, the government said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2026
Honma, astronomer behind black hole image, named for autumn honor
今日吃瓜 government said Monday that it would?award Medals of Honor to 736 people and 25 organizations this fall.
A charred metallic fragment, suspected to be rocket debris, at an oil palm plantation in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan Province on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 20, 2026
Near miss: Indonesia probes crash of suspected Chinese rocket fragment
The debris was found on Monday morning by a plantation worker in Indonesian Borneo, after residents reported hearing a loud bang the previous evening.
People watch the H3 rocket launch early Tuesday in the town of Minamitane, Kagoshima Prefecture.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 20, 2026
Japan launches probe in historic bid to collect sample from Mars moon
The five-year mission — the first to attempt to land on a Martian moon — could shed light on the origins of the solar system and life on Earth.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is seen in a "selfie" that it took over a rock nicknamed "Rochette," in September 2021.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 13, 2026
NASA’s Perseverance rover breaks record for off-planet driving on Mars
The rover reached the milestone 5??years into its mission to explore if conditions conducive to microbial life ever existed on Earth’s neighbor.
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi during a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 9, 2026
Japan to launch research study on rapid-response space transport
The move comes as more countries, including China, Russia and the U.S. continue to bolster their military capabilities in space.
An artist’s impression of a second-generation planet orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, the first planet of its kind to be found, in this image released on Oct. 5.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2026
Alien ‘phoenix planet’ was born from the ashes of a dying star
The planet is classified as a second-generation planet, meaning it did not form from a newborn star, but rather from the leftovers of a doomed star.
The Hayabusa2 unmanned probe is on an extended mission to its new target asteroid after bringing samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth in December 2020.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 1, 2026
Last working engine of Hayabusa2 asteroid probe breaks down
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency aims to continue the mission by employing usable parts of two other failed ion engines on Hayabusa2.
SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy V3 booster lift off from the company’s launch complex in Starbase, Texas, on Monday.?
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2026
SpaceX ushers in a new era and more junk in orbit
The downside to this new era in space exploration is that humans are likely to leave much more debris floating around in orbit.
U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink speaks during the United States Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony at Falcon Stadium at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in May.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 16, 2026
U.S. admission of space weapons seen as landmark moment in race with China and Russia
The move underscores how quickly developments have escalated into increasingly open preparations for the prospect of conflict extending into space.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit is launched over the Pacific Ocean from the city of Encinitas in California in April 2024.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 15, 2026
U.S. policies under Trump accelerate Europe’s push for space self-reliance
Europe’s moves potentially herald a restructuring of the global space order, with changes that may be difficult to unwind after Trump leaves office.
The Ryugu asteroid photographed in June 2018 by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 11, 2026
Parent body of asteroid Ryugu formed early in solar system history, study finds
Until now, the timing of the formation of the asteroid, as well as the parent body, itself, had remained uncertain.
A graphic image of a spacecraft from the Japan-Europe joint exploration mission BepiColombo, which is set to arrive on Mercury in November
JAPAN
Sep 11, 2026
Mercury’s radius has shrunk by over 10 kilometers, Japanese team finds
A spacecraft from the Japan-Europe joint exploration mission BepiColombo is set to arrive on Mercury in November.
Germany's Isar Aerospace rocket is launched into space from a base in Andoeya, Norway, on Saturday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 6, 2026
German rocket reaches space as Europe enters satellite launch race
The uncrewed rocket was the first commercial flight to reach orbit from continental Europe, where several nations say they want a share of a growing market for space missions.
The LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment main detector in Lead, South Dakota
WORLD
Sep 2, 2026
Scientists make potential breakthrough in search for dark matter
Researchers in South Dakota observed hints of it during a deep-underground experiment but stopped short of saying they finally detected this elusive cosmic component.
Toyohiro Akiyama spent nine days in space, broadcasting his zero-gravity experiences live and describing the experiments he conducted.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2026
Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen to go to space, dies at 84
A reporter-turned-farmer, Akiyama had hopes for a younger generation able to think freely.
Cabbages from Tsumagoi in Gunma Prefecture, sold based on supply forecasts using satellite data, are displayed on Monday in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2026
Satellite data used to boost cabbage sales in Japan
The initiative will use satellite data on cabbage color and size to forecast shipment volumes eight weeks in advance.
New research led by NASA scientists looking at five forms of fungi and bacteria indicates that some of them could survive for a time under certain conditions on the lunar surface — a finding that raises concerns about unintended life transfer to the moon.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2026
NASA-led study shows some Earth microbes could survive on the moon
The finding raises concerns about unintended life transfer to the lunar surface.
A China Lunar Exploration Program badge is seen on an employee's uniform.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Aug 21, 2026
China hunts for lunar ice in one of solar system’s coldest places
The uncrewed mission will represent a major step toward Beijing’s long-term goal of building a permanent human presence on the moon.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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