A cross July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA ...

The recent United States government's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" that was recently signed into law has good news for the ...

The huge 85m-wide rock, dubbed 2025 MA90, will pass within 6 million km of Earth today, July 15, and will be closely monitored by astronomers to help better understand asteroids ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

With Trump’s new budget cutting NASA science programs, the Mars Sample Return mission could be replaced by a private-sector ...

NASA has released the closest-ever images of the Sun, captured just 3.8 million miles from its surface. Since its launch in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe has gradually circled closer to the sun, flying ...

Venus: Venus dazzles in the eastern sky before sunrise, shining brightly for a couple of hours each morning. It’s joined by ...

Using infrared imaging data collected by the two satellites over a 10-year period from 2015 to 2025, the team estimated ...

A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to measure variation in the temperature on top of the Venusian clouds. They ...

For decades, Venus, often dubbed “Earth’s twin,” has been depicted as a barren, inhospitable world, its surface locked in an unchanging, oven-hot state. Yet, recent data from NASA’s Magellan orbiter ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.