The last spacecraft orbiting Venus, a Japanese probe known for its unique cultural stunt of sending a fictional pop star to the planet, has been declared officially dead. This event, confirmed on ...

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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 ...

For decades, the surface of Venus has remained an enigma, hidden beneath thick clouds and extreme conditions that make direct ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A spacecraft that launched from Florida nearly 40 years ago helped discover a vast underground tunnel formed from ancient volcanic ...

When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new: evidence of volcanic activity on Earth's "twin." The NASA Magellan spacecraft ...

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

While making its way to Mercury, the BepiColombo, a European-Japanese spacecraft, made a close approach to Venus on Aug. 10, according to the European Space Agency. The spacecraft snapped 89 images of ...

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The discovery was made by re-analyzing radar data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft from the early 1990s. This finding confirms long-held theories about the existence of subsurface volcanic features on ...