On Wednesday (Nov. 6), NASA's Parker Solar Probe will complete its seventh swing past Venus— the spacecraft's final maneuver around the amber planet that will nudge it onto a trajectory that ...

The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on November 6, which will nudge it into an extremely tight orbit around our sun. Once it reaches its final position around our ...

Venus Optics announced that it will be releasing an innovative new zoom probe lens under its Laowa brand, set to come out ...

According to NASA, the Parker Solar Probe reached speeds of up to 430,000 mph, enduring temperatures as high as 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit (982 Celsius). Although the probe is scheduled to orbit the sun ...

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Some space conspiracy theories just won't go away.

Earth ejecta, for instance, could hold Earth life.

Credit: NASA Venus as viewed from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech It's unknown when, exactly, these planet-altering events began. It could have been several ...

But what about Venus, one of Earth’s closest neighbors, or planets and moons even farther away? Scientists and space agencies ...

Launched in 2018, the spacecraft used seven flybys of Venus to gravitationally direct it ever closer to the sun. With its last Venus flyby on Nov. 6, 2024, the spacecraft reached its optimal orbit.

“We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of Mercury.” Sequence of 89 images ...