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 ...

Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a single moon, making it a rare phenomenon for a planet of its kind.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) JUICE spacecraft launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in April 2023. The ...

JUICE ("Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer"), which is on its way to do just what you might expect after hearing its name. The ...

Can you imagine that 4 billion years ago, Venus was actually more habitable than Earth? But now, it has turned into a ...

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

Unlike Earth and the outer planets, Venus and Mercury orbit the Sun without moons. Astronomers say the Sun’s overwhelming gravity makes it nearly impossible for small satellites to survive.

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.

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

The ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE), which launched in April 2023, has completed another successful flyby aimed at boosting its speed ahead of a Jupiter orbital insertion sometime in 2031.

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...