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

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

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 ...

Fifteen years after launch, JAXA has said goodbye to the spacecraft, our only working probe around Earth's "sister planet".

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

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

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

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.

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

A coalition of scientists and historians are floating a long-shot plan to retrieve orbiting relics—raising questions about ...

This is a powerful and often aggressive transit, as Mars is the planet that rules war, and Scorpio is the most intense zodiac ...