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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 ...
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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 ...
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Researchers find strange structures on Venus

Researchers have recently focused on intriguing geological formations on Venus, including peculiar structures on its surface ...

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 ...