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The latest news from space-faring countries, agencies, industry and academia   ·   Sunday 21 June 2026, 8.24pm GMT   ·   Nº

Cloudy Venus
12 April 2018
Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s Venus Express shows our sister planet’s atmosphere to be an alien and dynamic place, with unique clouds and behaviour

Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System
15 August 2017
Ten spacecraft, from ESA’s Venus Express to NASA’s Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three Earth-orbiting satellites watched, providing a unique perspective on this space weather event.

What lies beneath
19 July 2016
ESA’s Venus Express reveals details on Venus’ surface by studying patterns of clouds in its thick atmosphere

Destination: Venus
10 November 2015
Space Science Image of the Week: These striking images of Venus’ dynamic south pole were recorded by ESA’s Venus Express during its eight years orbiting the planet

Hot lava flows discovered on Venus
18 June 2015
ESA’s Venus Express has found the best evidence yet for active volcanism on Earth’s neighbour planet.

A stormy shape-shifter
20 January 2015
Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft snapped this image in 2007 of a rapidly shape-shifting vortex at Venus’ south pole

Venus Express goes gently into the night
16 December 2014
ESA’s Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns to raise its orbit following the low-altitude aerobraking earlier this year. 

Brief Venus Express update: Not quite dead yet
13 December 2014
Venus Express is still alive and talking to Earth, but may fall into Venus’ atmosphere in January.

Venus Express raises orbit to keep going
2 December 2014
Between 23 and 30 November the operations team at ESOC conducted manoeuvres to raise the pericentre of the Venus Express (VEX) orbit again, in an effort to keep the spacecraft in productive orbit around Venus.

European probe survives daring dive through Venus atmosphere
26 August 2014
The Venus Express probe wrapped up its "aerobraking" move and entered a new, higher orbit late last month. It will continue to study Venus for several more months and then, as its fuel runs out, dip back into the planet’s atmosphere for good.

Venus Express: up above the clouds so high
1 August 2014
ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has climbed to a new orbit following its daring aerobraking experiment, and will now resume observations of this fascinating planet for at least a few more months.

Venus Express rises again
11 July 2014
After a month surfing in and out of the atmosphere of Venus down to just 130 km from the planet’s surface, ESA’s Venus Express is about to embark on a 15 day climb up to the lofty heights of 460 km.


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