If we're looking for life as we don't know it, the best solvent out there may be concentrated sulfuric acid — the stuff that's floating around in the clouds of Venus.

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 ...

ESA had to abandon its Venus satellite Venus Express after eight years in orbit. At the end of April, Japan's space agency JAXA lost contact with the last Venus probe Akatsuki (あかつき).

BepiColombo is operated by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The probe launched ... The spacecraft has been flying by Earth, Venus and Mercury since 2020, use the planets ...