Global topographic map of Venus, with all the Soviet probe landings marked (red: returned images; with additional black dot: analyzed samples). There have been 46 space missions to …

Jul 17, 2025 · Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA's Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it …

Nov 4, 2025 · The first private spacecraft mission to Venus, Rocket Lab's Photon Spacecraft, will take on the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET."

Jan 25, 2024 · ESA’s next mission to Venus was officially ‘adopted’ today by the Agency’s Science Programme Committee. Envision will study Venus from its inner core to its outer …

Nov 1, 2025 · Human spaceflight is on the cusp of an intriguing new dawn. For 25 years, astronauts have lived and worked onboard the International Space Station (ISS), starting with …

Since the dawn of the space age, a total of 23 missions (American and Soviet) have successfully travelled to Venus, out of 41 that were launched (counting all of those that flew past Venus …

Nov 3, 2025 · The International Space Station (ISS) is a modular space station in low Earth orbit, primarily built by the United States and Russia, with contributions from a multinational …

Venus was visited for the first time in 1961 by Venera 1, which flew past the planet, achieving the first interplanetary spaceflight. The first data from Venus were returned during the second …

On Dec. 5, 2015, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this image from the International Space Station of the planet Venus shining bright. Part of the …

Nov 4, 2025 · 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 …