Japan's first space probe launched in May 21, 2010, aboard an H2-A rocket heading for Venus. It entered the planet's orbit by Dec. 7, 2015 after a previous attempt in 2010.

India's space program is reaching for the stars with ambitious missions unveiled on National Space Day. ISRO plans include ...

NASA’s boldest plan yet to find alien life in our solar system targets the most unlikely place: Venus. With its scorching ...

In 2018, the mission's lifetime was extended, and it has continued to collect data until this spring. Only eyes on Venus Akatsuki is presently the only operational spacecraft at Venus.

For decades, the Venus community has been crying out for missions: Only one dedicated spacecraft is currently studying our next-door neighbor, and NASA's last robotic Venus visitor ended its ...

NASA targets Venus with plans to send its first probes there in more than 30 years The missions would study Venus’s atmosphere and topography as well as how Earth evolved, the space agency said ...

Various NASA spacecraft have done flybys of Venus in more recent years, but the agency hasn't launched a dedicated Venus mission since Magellan, which reached the planet in 1990 to map the surface.

"We believe that continuing such activities will further expand our horizon in the field of planetary science." ...

As it sped away from Venus, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer. NASA ...

Europe’s last foray there was the Venus Express spacecraft, which orbited the planet and studied it from 2006 until 2014. Today, Japan’s climate-observing Akatsuki is the only emissary from ...

Currently, missions that would go to Venus are considered Category II, which means there’s only a remote chance that a spacecraft could contaminate the planet and compromise future investigations.

The Photon spacecraft, a small, 660-pound satellite that had its first test flight to orbit this month, would launch when Earth and Venus align for the shortest journey, and arrive there in ...