Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

The list of accomplishments of the Mariner program is long indeed, and the number of firsts achieved by its ten spacecraft is impressive. But it is Mariner 4, the first flyby mission of Mars ...

On February 25th, 1969, NASA launched Mariner 6, a spacecraft intended to conduct a flyby of Mars to search for signs of life ...

Although an onslaught of astronaut sniffles and sore throats at Cape Kennedy last week delayed the orbital flight of Apollo 9, an unmanned spacecraft named Mariner 6 was successfully launched from ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 space probe was the first spacecraft to complete a flyby of Mercury. The first of its three encounters with the planet took place on this day in ...

He went on to become an engineer on the early Pioneer moon missions and led the design team for both the Ranger and Mariner spacecraft. Casani held senior project positions on many of the Mariner ...

We had essentially no informaton on the chemical properties of the planets and their atmospheres until 1969, when NASA launched the Mariner 6 and 7 spacecraft, which both flew within a few thousand ...

However, after re-evaluating using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Enaiposha shares more similarities with Venus than previously thought, leading to the proposal of ...

In both cases, the spacecraft's own gravity will also pull on Jupiter, but with minimal effect because of the planet's massive size. After Mariner 10, Flandro's supervisor asked him to explore ...

The Voyage of Mariner II Late in 1962 this 447-pound spacecraft flew by Venus in the deepest successful penetration of the solar system. A great technological feat, it produced much scientific ...