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

There's a broad consensus in the scientific community that a follow-up mission to Pluto should be an orbiter, and not a ...

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

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

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

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

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

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has learned to pull off daring 120-degree rolls that give its SHARAD radar ...

On Episode 168 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik jump into the headlines, and boy are there a lot of them! Welcome to the "Survivor: NASA" edition!

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 ...