Massive lava-carved tunnels have been confirmed beneath the surface of Venus, providing the strongest evidence yet that the planet's volcanic past created underground networks unlike those ...

Scientists have presented the "first compelling evidence for the existence of lava tubes on Venus." And they're way bigger ...

Recent advancements in the field of synthetic gravity have been unveiled by scientists, marking a significant leap in our ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on September 18 the official end of its Akatsuki mission, Japan's first Venus orbiter, after more than 15 years of operation ...

A Japanese spacecraft that once carried over 13,000 Hatsune Miku fan messages and drawings into space has officially ended ...

On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch ...

Fifteen years after launch, Japan has announced the end of the "Planet C" mission, leaving humanity with no presence around ...

It has been suggested that lava tubes - underground tunnels carved out by molten rock - might be on Venus, and now we have ...

On September 22, it was reported that the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) initiated the termination procedure for the Venus Climate Orbiter 'Akatsuki' (PLANET-C) on September 18, marking the ...

At the beginning of 2024, contact was lost with the only active probe on Venus, and all attempts to rescue it failed. The ...

Japanese space agency, JAXA, lost contact with Akatsuki in April 2024, after the probe entered a low-precision attitude control mode near the end of its operational lifespan.

A team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) compared the early impact histories of Venus and Earth, discovering that Venus experienced higher-energy impacts, resulting in an overheated core.