Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, but more might be coming in a few years. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after ...

After a year of attempting contact, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Tuesday that its Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter spacecraft has died and is no longer responsive. This was ...

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A collapsed lava tube detected in 30-year-old radar data from Venus may be part of a much wider network of underground caves.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Wednesday announced plans to launch a pair of missions to Venus to better understand how Earth’s neighbor became an "inferno-like world," when it may have once been ...

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, has been discovered Venus.

Rocket Lab's mission to Venus, which was originally scheduled to launch last month, is "not imminent," a spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch. That means the mission will likely move ahead no earlier ...

Venus, long called Earth's 'evil twin' for its toxic clouds and crushing heat, is drawing fresh global attention. After decades of neglect, five major missions from NASA, ESA, ISRO and Roscosmos are ...

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