After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA's Deep Space Optical ...

Rivers are Earth's arteries. Water, sediment and nutrients self-organize into diverse, dynamic channels as they journey from ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

President Donald Trump on Monday named Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to also serve as interim NASA administrator.

HOUSTON — NASA has deployed two specialized aircraft to assist state and local authorities with flood recovery operations in ...

Learn how glaciers melt and contribute to seas rising in this animated explainer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft took the first up-close images of Mars, changing humanity's understanding ...

As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...

Mariner 4, built by JPL in Pasadena, took the images on July 14, 1965. One of the mission's leaders reflects on decades of ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, modified the backup Mariner 4 spacecraft to operate closer to the Sun, and on June 14, 1967, NASA launched Mariner 5 on a 127-day ...

American space agency NASA said it selected the first two instruments to be fitted on the upcoming Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV ...