Japan has lost contact with its Akatsuki probe, the only spacecraft currently in orbit around Venus. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Akatsuki space probe — which is the sole ongoing mission to the planet Venus — may be on its last legs. In an update on X, JAXA‘s Institute of Space and ...

Humanity's only mission in Venus is in limbo after a Japanese spacecraft went dark last month, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency confirmed. The JAXA space agency said it lost communication with ...

For nearly 10 years, there’s been only one spacecraft able to keep its cool above the hellish landscape of Venus. The Japanese Akatsuki probe was sent to Earth’s neighboring planet to observe its ...

The Japanese space exploration agency JAXA has lost contact with its Akatsuki space probe, which was launched in 2010 and has been in Venus’ orbit since 2015. “Akatsuki” is the Japanese word for dawn ...

Update: Jaxa has confirmed that the orbital maneuver worked. Akatsuki is now in a stable elliptical orbit around Venus. While the new orbit will not allow for the same mission profile as was ...

Hatsune Miku is being retired. After more than a decade in orbit, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft has officially gone silent. The mission—designed to study Venus’s atmosphere—was declared complete by JAXA ...

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After more than six months of interplanetary travel, a space probe from Japan arrived at Venus yesterday, but the fate of its mission to study the hellishly hot planet's extreme weather is uncertain, ...