Just days after the launch of Venera 5 in 1969, the Soviet Union launched Venera 6 to continue exploration of Venus. The mission ... Together the Venera 5 and 6 probe data allowed a more precise ...

NASA's beleaguered Mars Sample Return program currently faces extreme costs of up to $11 billion and a timeline that could ...

NASA's Apollo 8 mission in 1968 became the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and back but an image repeatedly portrayed on social media as showing a couple watching its launch is digitally ...

“I found you could use seven Venus flybys.” The last of those flybys occurred on November 6, with the spacecraft swooping 387 km above the surface of Venus. Since then, it has been on its ...