Perplexing planet Enter the Japanese spacecraft Akatsuki, which was launched on May 20, 2010. The spacecraft is designed to study the structure and activity of the Venus atmosphere. After a ...

In an unexpected twist, two Earth-based weather satellites, Himawari-8 and Himawari-9, have provided invaluable data on Venus ...

Huge Mysterious Structure Spotted On VenusImages taken over four days from Akatsuki showed the wave staying in roughly the same place. ©Planet-C On Venus, a westerly wind blows up to 60 times ...

Venus is a planet similar in size to the Earth. Nevertheless, it is quite different in other aspects. On the one hand, it spins very slowly on its axis, taking 224 terrestrial days and, moreover ...

Japan's Himawari-8 and Himawari-9 satellites, designed to study weather here on Earth, have also been quietly collecting ...

Venus Express will eventually manoeuvre itself into orbit around Venus in order to perform a detailed study of the structure, chemistry and dynamics of the planet’s atmosphere, which is ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

Incidentally, this lack of argon-40 in Venus' atmosphere also probably explains why the planet has never had oceans. This is because the decaying potassium-40 that produces argon-40 exists within ...

Venus as seen from the International Space Station in 2015. Image: NASA/JAXA It’s hot. It’s toxic. It spins backwards and is covered in volcanoes. And we’re headed there soon.

Venus Express will eventually manoeuvre itself into orbit around Venus in order to perform a detailed study of the structure, chemistry and dynamics of the planet's atmosphere, which is ...