A fireball meteor spotted over southwestern Japan on Aug. 19 was the most powerful recorded in the region since data ...

A team of geoscientists has identified a subtle but powerful force driving mountain building and compression of Earth's crust in Japan and neighboring regions. The so-called same-dip double subduction ...

Far beneath the waves, down in the depths of the Japan Trench—seven kilometers below sea level—lie hidden clues about some of ...

People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...

A 2012 astronaut photo shows the striking beauty of Japan's Aso Caldera, a "supervolcanic" structure home to more than a ...

Japan launched its newest flagship-class environmental satellite Jan. 24 on a three- to five-year mission that experts here said could breathe new life into a civilian Earth observation program ...

The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan Friday (March 11) has shortened the length Earth's day by a fraction and shifted how the planet's mass is distributed.

By changing the distribution of mass on the earth, Japan's earthquake sped up the planet's rotation, shortening the day by 1.8 microseconds, a new analysis has found.

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

India's state-owned miner IREL is seeking to collaborate with Japanese and South Korean companies to start commercial ...

Japanese manufacturers concerned about China's restrictive export quotas on essential rare earths may have found a way to resolve their supply concerns -- relocate production to China.