A South West specetech firm is to recruit more than 100 highly skilled engineers after landing a £20m contract for the ...

Venus just lost its last active spacecraft, but more might be coming in a few years. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after ...

JAXA, the Japanese space agency, confirmed Wednesday that it has lost communication with its Akatsuki spacecraft in orbit around Venus. In its update, the space agency said it failed to establish ...

The EnVision Venus orbiter could help explain why the hellish planet ended up so different from our own hospitable world. Reading time 2 minutes The EnVision mission to Venus was officially adopted by ...

Rocket Lab now expects to launch a privately funded mission to Venus at the end of 2024, arriving at the planet in May 2025. Credit: Rocket Lab Updated Oct. 31 to clarify launch period. WASHINGTON — ...

A satellite designed to study Venus from top to bottom and a trio of gravitational wave-surfing spacecraft are two of the latest missions that the European Space Agency has adopted. The agency ...

Venus Life Finder is a privately funded mission to explore the Venusian atmosphere. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rocket Lab ...

“A new era in the exploration of our closest, yet wildly different, Solar System neighbour awaits us,” says Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science. “Together with the newly announced NASA-led Venus ...

Amid uncertainty over space agencies’ plans for future Venus exploration, enthusiasm for a private-sector mission grows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...