Blue planets? Could Venus have had oceans like Earth in the distant past? (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/NASA/Apollo 17 ...
But when we look at Mars, it seems to have been habitable for a period of time and then lost its atmosphere and its surface water. Mars' situation must be more common than Earth's.
JAXA, the Japanese space agency, confirmed Wednesday that it has lost communication with its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus. In its update, the space agency said it failed to establish ...
NASA’s spacecraft Magellan used cloud-penetrating radar to survey most of the planet. But back then, the relatively ...
The Japanese space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki.
HOPE is quickly fading for Earth's last-remaining Venus mission, after controllers lost contact with the Japanese spacecraft after 14 years. JAXA, Japan's space agency, has confirmed that it ...
Scientists have found new evidence of volcanic activity reshaping the surface of Venus, which could even suggest that its activity rivals that of present day Earth. Back in 2023, scientists ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Akatsuki space probe — which is the sole ongoing mission to the planet Venus — may be on its last legs. In an update on X, JAXA's Institute of Space and ...
I t’s been quite a week in the senior common rooms of wisteria-clad academia. Oxford and Cambridge have been knocked off their perch in a leading international university ranking for the first ...
"The main engine did not work, so to reduce the spacecraft's mass, they tossed 65 kg of oxidizer overboard. With the craft's reduced mass, the operators planned to use Akatsuki's four hydrazine ...