The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...

Akatsuki, also called the Venus Climate Orbiter, was launched in 2010 to enter the orbit of Venus and collect the planet's ...

Two gravitational wave signals explain why the heavier black holes of the causal pairs did not originate in a stellar ...

For nearly a decade, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft circled Venus, offering scientists rare glimpses into the planet’s turbulent ...

The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.

It's largely agreed that the moon was created around 4.5 billion years ago when a protoplanet collided with early molten ...

Contrary to allegations that 31/ATLAS is potentially hostile alien tech, the Manhattan-sized comet could provide potentially ...

Regardless of whether it is a natural comet or a man-made object from another civilization, ATLAS could be the key to ...

Did Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton make isolated discoveries, or did Islamic science contribute to their work on astronomy ...

The Manhattan-sized comet may offer potentially life-saving intelligence, despite claims that 31/ATLAS is potentially hostile ...

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Dennis Herrmann developed a life-long interest in astronomy at an early age and got his first telescope at the age of 12.