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TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--In a lab tightly packed with models of therapy robots, a harp seal with light pink hair looked up at the person stroking its fluffy head and let out an affectionate squeak.

The Geminids, one of the three major annual meteor showers, will peak around 10 p.m. on Dec. 14 and continue to fall until dawn on Dec. 15.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan that’s designed to roll around up there in the gray dust.

Proper or lucky positioning on crowded escalators can help people significantly lower the risk of novel coronavirus infections caused by coughing maskless individuals, a study showed.

A Japanese startup launched an uncrewed lunar lander from the United States on Dec. 11 in a quest to become the first private-sector company to land a spacecraft on the moon.

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa revealed on Friday that K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon as soon as next year, hitching a ride on one of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets.

A new study confirms the COVID-19 pandemic affected not only the mental health of teenagers in the U.S. but also prematurely aged their brains by at least three years.  

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa tweeted on Monday that he plans to make a “big announcement” related to space after a meeting with SpaceX owner Elon Musk.

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- China Shenzhou-14 manned spaceship separated from the space station combination at 11:01 a.m. Sunday (

A Japanese biotech firm says it has developed the world’s first early screening test for pancreatic cancer, using the powerful noses of tiny worms.