Since the 2010s, Venus has become the sole domain of Japan’s JAXA, with Akatsuki (‘Dawn’) still in orbit, but beyond that nothing but telescopes pointed at our sister planet. Venus also has ...

Japan's Venus orbiter Akatsuki spotted it as recently as 2016 ... good spatial resolution," Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) scientist Javier Peralta, who first spotted the structure ...

At the end of April, Japan's space agency JAXA lost contact with the last Venus probe Akatsuki (あかつき). India wants to be the next country to launch a Venus orbiter, which is due to happen ...

Luckily, the instruments of Japan's Venus-orbiting Akatsuki (or Planet-C) spacecraft saw and photographed the anomaly for the first time in infrared light, a form of "heat vision" humans are ...