The Japanese space agency said it has lost contact with its intrepid Venus spacecraft Akatsuki. Akatsuki is Japan's mission dedicated to studying the climate of Venus and currently the only active ...
Since the 2010s, Venus has become the sole domain of Japan’s JAXA, with Akatsuki (‘Dawn’) still in orbit, but beyond that nothing but telescopes pointed at our sister planet. Venus also has ...
Luckily, the instruments of Japan's Venus-orbiting Akatsuki (or Planet-C) spacecraft saw and photographed the anomaly for the first time in infrared light, a form of "heat vision" humans are ...
Japan's Ikaros spacecraft was the first to deploy a solar sail in space and use it as its main mode of propulsion — and ...
These are slides showing two-hourly 2.26-μm radiance obtained by the IR2 camera onboard Akatsuki on July 11-12 ... 18 and 22 h include the dayside of Venus in the observational field of view ...
Synthesized false colour image of Venus, using 283-nm and 365-nm band images taken by the Venus Ultraviolet Imager (UVI). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of ...
Embrace the thrill of adventure and seek out experiences that expand your heart and mind After swimming through the depths of Scorpio, Venus is ready to rise from the ashes and embrace a new ...
It's an extraordinary possibility - the idea that living organisms are floating in the clouds of Planet Venus. But this is what astronomers are now considering after detecting a gas in the ...
An international team of astronomers including UK scientists from Manchester and Cardiff, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is ...
It's not possible for life to exist in the clouds of Venus. It's simply too dry, says an international research team led from Queen's University Belfast, UK. Hopes had been raised last year that ...
Venus is the brightest 'star' in the night sky and it has been observed since ancient times. Often dubbed Earth's 'twin', it is the planet most similar to the Earth in size, mass and composition.
What is that bright star after sunset? It’s Venus—and it's back in the evening sky. Aside from the sun and moon, there is no brighter object in the sky than the second planet from the sun.