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Venus loses its last active spacecraft, as Japan declares Akatsuki orbiter dead

Humanity's last active mission at Venus is no more. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus ...
WTVD

Planet Venus could have been habitable billions of years ago, NASA says

A spectacular recent find points towards life on another planet in our solar system. NASA scientists presented a study that Venus could have been a habitable planet two or three billion years ago with ...
ExtremeTech

Last Venus Spacecraft Goes Dark, Leaving No Active Human-Made Presence

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 ...
AOL

Venus's clouds contain massive reservoirs of water and iron

Venus has long been called a dry, hellish planet veiled in clouds of liquid acid. But new study of old spacecraft data tells a different story—one that’s reshaping what scientists believed they knew ...