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 ...

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck interested in collaborations with NASA for Mars and Venus exploration missions amid possible life ...

This was the first Japanese planetary orbiter to operate beyond Earth orbit. Japan had earlier launched the Nozomi probe to ...

At that time, there was no advanced technology; they relied on naked-eye observations and were able to discern the patterns ...

Newly discovered comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) will soon be gracing our evening sky. Here's how to see it and what to expect.

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 ...

If you want to build a little rocket to get off a little planet, [Rocket Lab is] probably a good place to start,' ...

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

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