NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe made history on Christmas Eve by completing its closest-ever approach to the Sun, coming within 3.8 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Earth is an ocean world, with water covering about 71% of its surface. Venus, our closest ...

In addition to revolutionizing our understanding about the sun, the probe also caught rare closeups of passing comets and ...

DAVINCI's probe will be the first in the 21st century to brave Venus's atmosphere as it descends from above the planet's ...

IT is said (for example, refs. 1–3) that our knowledge of the surface of the cloud covered planet Venus is extremely fragmentary and ambiguous; that there are alternative non-thermal ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

The disappointing revelation emerged from the fact it appears water oceans could never have existed on the surface of our neighboring planet. Venus is often referred to as Earth's "evil twin ...

But up close, Venus is more like an evil twin: it is covered with thick clouds of sulfuric acid, and its surface has a mean temperature close to 500°C. Despite these extreme conditions ...

Astronomers have long debated whether Venus, which is extremely hot and inhospitable to life today, once had liquid-water oceans on its surface. A new study found very little water in the planet's ...