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.

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

September offers various celestial events, including Saturn and Neptune's oppositions, Mars's approach to solar conjunction, and favorable viewing of Uranus and Jupiter. Multiple transits of Saturn's ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

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

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.

Sandra Bullock as Ryan Stone in her space-suit looking at an object offscreen in Gravity Image via Warner Bros. In 2024, the re-release of Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic Interstellar was a ...