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

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

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 ...

An upcoming mission from the European Space Agency called BepiColumbo will map Mercury at different wavelengths once it arrives on December 5, 2025. The spacecraft’s two orbiters—the ESA ...

sustainability and space. Has life seemed a little more chaotic than lately the past few weeks? According to many followers of astrology, part of the reason could be the pesky planet Mercury.

The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet this week, capturing another haunting image as it zoomed by. On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six ...

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.

Slayton made his first space flight in 1975 as the Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission. Donald "Deke" Slayton was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts ...

BepiColombo is a joint space mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), currently proposed to be launched in 2018, with the aim to reach Mercury in ...