Akatsuki, also called the Venus Climate Orbiter, was launched in 2010 to enter the orbit of Venus and collect the planet's ...

JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft, launched in 2010, has officially ended its mission after more than a decade studying Venus’s ...

For nearly a decade, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft circled Venus, offering scientists rare glimpses into the planet’s turbulent ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a ...

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 ...

The last voice from Venus has gone quiet. Japan’s Akatsuki mission, once the planet’s only active observer, has finally fallen silent after years of trailblazing science.

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 ...

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 ...