The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki mission orbiting Venus was declared dead last week after engineers spent ...

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The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...

BERLIN (AP) — A spacecraft bound for Mercury swung by Venus on Thursday, using Earth's neighbor to adjust its course on the way to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet. Launched almost two ...

Venus is officially a lonely planet. After losing contact with the Akatsuki spacecraft last year, Japan’s space agency (JAXA) has officially ended operations of the lone mission left in our ...

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If everything had gone to plan, an uncrewed Soviet-era spacecraft would have landed on Venus in 1972 to conduct a few hours of operations before dying for good. The probe known as Cosmos 482 was meant ...

A piece of a failed 1972 Soviet Venus probe is expected to reenter Earth around May 10. The object could fall anywhere between 52° North and 52° South, covering a wide area. Experts say the risk is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: JAXA/ESA The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet ...

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