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, ...

Years after a failed attempt at orbiting Venus, the Akatsuki spacecraft snuggles up next to the planet and snaps a series of photos. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with ...

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 ...