After decades of silence, NASA is refocusing on Venus with two new missions. Scientists aim to understand how a planet that may have once hosted oceans turned into a model of climate collapse.

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 ...

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 ...

The moon will be 99% full Friday night, and with mostly clear skies expected for Louisville in the evening, tonight is a good ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s response to space weather conditions. However, to more directly study incoming ...

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 ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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