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

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...
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Scientists discovered a Venus-like world that might not be a hellhole

Based on what scientists have said about Venus, finding a world similar to it may not seem like a thrilling breakthrough in space research: Our neighboring planet's surface is a hot, toxic world, with ...
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Research Suggests That Venus Was Never Habitable

A team of astronomers has found that Venus has never been habitable, despite decades of speculation that our closest planetary neighbour was once much more like Earth than it is today. The researchers ...
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Is It Really a Good Idea to Send People to Venus?

Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own planet. It has a “runaway” greenhouse effect (meaning heat is completely ...