Back in 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the The Venus Climate Orbiter "Akatsuki" with the intention of…
It seems a lot of the space stories of this year involve spacecraft making journeys: bouncing across a comet, or…
Venus Express is mostly dead. The spacecraft spent more than eight years faithfully relaying information from the Morning Star/Evening Star…
After surviving an eight-year mission and a daring plunge into part of the atmosphere of Venus, a plucky spacecraft orbiting…
After more than eight years orbiting a hellish planet, Venus Express is showing its age. The spacecraft made some risky…
It's been an interesting year for Venus Express. A few months ago, controllers deliberately dipped the spacecraft into the atmosphere…
It’s a major mystery posed by our sister world. Does the atmosphere of Venus possess upper atmospheric phenomena similar to…
It was a daring maneuver, but the plan to put Venus Express lower in the planet's thick atmosphere has worked.…
Here's another marvel of technology: there are people on Earth who are formulating solar weather forecasts ... for Venus. While…
Venus is definitely not a friendly planet for humanity. Soviet landers that arrived on the surface a few decades back…