Moon and other celestial bodies planned by the United States, China, Japan, and the European Space Agency (ESA). These ...

"The moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

"Our study uses geophysical data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft." MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, ...

Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the type that is supposed to carry the first astronaut into orbit some time in late 1961. Instead of soaring 200 miles ...

On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 times farther from the planet than on its previous flyby, which saw it come ...

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.