It’s not every day you hear about a troubled spacecraft making a desperate attempt to cling to a planet — for the second time. This image, illustrated before Akatsuki took its second shot at Venus, ...

Ultimately, the Akatsuki and the Kara Organization did share something in common where they are both assisting the celestial ninja known as the Otsutsuki, though the latter knows fully well that they ...

We report Venus image observations around the two maximum elongations of the planet at June and October 2015. From these images we describe the global atmospheric dynamics and cloud morphology in the ...

TOKYO — Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft sped past Venus on Dec. 7 without entering orbit, but mission planners hope to attempt orbital insertion again in six years when the 25.2 billion yen ($300 million) ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's Akatsuki spacecraft arrived in orbit around the planet Venus in December 2015, five years after missing the planet on its first try. Now, the science ...

It may have taken five years for Japan's 'dawn' to rise again, but this time the mission has proved far more successful. Japan's space agency has confirmed its Akatsuki probe has entered into orbit ...

The Venusian atmosphere is in a state of superrotation where prevailing westward winds move much faster than the planet’s rotation. Venus is covered with thick clouds that extend from about 45 to 70 ...