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 ...

Using supersonic shockwaves for combustion, the groundbreaking design could allow aircraft to travel up to six times the ...

Hatsune Miku's voyage through space has finally come to an end after 15 long years. The Japanese space probe Akatsuki has ...

Japan’s Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki was launched on May 21, 2010, and started its active mission in 2015 after an initial ...

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 ...

Akatsuki had completed its regular two-year operation that started in April 2016, after which its operation was extended to ...

September is a special month for the planet as it reaches opposition. This means Earth will find itself in between Saturn and ...

I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...

Sol Plaatje Municipality is investigating allegations that the youth desk co-ordinator in the Office of the Executive Mayor has continued receiving a full salary despite reportedly being absent from ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that ...