The spacecraft was in “an extended period of low attitude stability control mode” before it went silent, ISAS wrote. ISAS is currently trying to reestablish contact with its Venus probe.

Venus is often called Earth’s twin, but its atmosphere is one of the harshest in the Solar System. NASA’s DAVINCI probe will dive into those clouds to search for chemical clues that could point to ...

The probe will begin its interactions with Venus’s upper atmosphere when it reaches an altitude of 75 miles (120 kilometers) and it will eject its heat shield when it’s 42 miles (67 kilometers ...

A space probe is about to fly by Venus, and it could help search for the faint signatures of life in the planet’s atmosphere. The BepiColombo probe is slated to make a pass of Venus next month ...

The probe was one of a pair of Venus atmospheric landers hurled skyward during their respective go-to-Venus launch windows. The twin Venera-8 spacecraft was launched a few days earlier, sent ...

NASA is gearing up for its Parker Solar Probe to do a final flyby of Venus on Wednesday on its way to making history as the closest any human-made object has ever been to the sun. Parker will use ...

The probe will be coming down “in the mountains of Venus, in a kind of terrain that’s never been seen by humanity before,” Garvin said. And the team wants to record this experience visually ...

Venus was the subject of intense study when, in 2020, astronomers believe they had detected phosphine gas, which is associated with anaerobic bacteria, in small concentrations in Venus' atmosphere.

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft headed to Mercury can be seen flying low above the atmosphere of Venus in a new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday (Aug. 12).

Japan's Akatsuki probe was originally supposed to arrive at Venus in December 2010, but an engine failure caused the spacecraft to miss its target and zoom off into orbit around the sun. But this ...

Only four spacecraft have ever sent back images from their surface before being destroyed. The Soviet Union’s Venera probes, launched in 1975 and 1982, took the only photos ever captured from Venus’ ...

The probe will be orbiting at the same time as the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express spacecraft, which has been sending back data since April 2006. (Also see: "Solar Sail Hybrid Launches ...