Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our ...

On May 21, 2010, the Akatsuki orbiter ("Dawn" in Japanese) launched from the Tanegashima Space Center atop a H-IIA Launch Vehicle, establishing orbit around Venus in December 2015. In so doing, ...

Forty-three years ago, in March 1982, humanity received its last direct visual postcard from the surface of Venus.

The Venus Orbiter will carry sophisticated instruments, each designed for specific tasks such as the S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. This advanced radar system will create detailed maps of Venus's ...

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

If you want to build a little rocket to get off a little planet, [Rocket Lab is] probably a good place to start,' ...

Isro invites Indian institutes to propose research for Shukrayaan, the Venus Orbiter Mission. The mission aims to investigate Venus's atmosphere, topography, morphology, and sub-surface features.

ISRO invites Indian scientists to analyze archival data for Venus Orbiter Mission, with proposals due by November 15, 2025.

It’s especially puzzling since Venus is a terrestrial world much like Earth, so much so that it’s considered to be our planet’s “twin,” at nearly the same size and density. We’re also neighbors, ...

At the beginning of 2024, contact was lost with the only active probe on Venus, and all attempts to rescue it failed. The mission has now been terminated.