"It'll be inside the upper atmosphere of the sun, literally touching the star," Rayl said. In November, the probe conducted ...

NASA's DAVINCI—Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging—mission embodies the spirit of ...

The Parker Solar Probe was positioned closest to the sun, less than 30 solar radii away (Rs)—a unit of distance based on the ...

Even robots die quickly on Venus. The most long-lived of the 10 Venusian landers, the Soviet Union's Venera 13 probe, lasted ...

Among its other discoveries, the Parker Solar Probe has also provided the first compelling evidence for the long-theorized ...

Yet a recent study in the journal Nature Astronomy strongly suggests Venus was always hostile to life. Scientists from the ...

The Parker Solar Probe will soon reach the closest a human-made object has ever come to the sun. The probe, designed to study ...

Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, is sometimes called Earth's twin based on their similar size and rocky composition.

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

Drawing a parallel to a past moment in space exploration, Rawafi added, “In 1969, we landed humans on the moon for the first ...

We've long believed that Venus was once more like Earth before it turned into a scorching, sulfurous planet. Not so, ...