Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft has successfully achieved the first-ever orbit ...

The European-Japanese spacecraft had been slated to reach Mercury in December 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The joint ...

MESSENGER began its 2,000th orbit around Mercury earlier this week, on May 22. The spacecraft completed its primary mission on March 17, 2012, and its first extended mission on March 17, 2013. The ...

BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek of the cratered planet it will begin to orbit in 2026. By Katrina Miller On Thursday, a ...

After a six-year mission to become to the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, the MESSENGER has finally sent back some images from the closest planet to the Sun. The MESSENGER (which stands for MEcury ...

Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to use another planet's gravity to reach its destination. It revealed Mercury's heavily cratered surface, magnetic field, and iron-rich core. The mission faced ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A desk-sized NASA spacecraft is about to pull a tricky maneuver to become the first man-made object to orbit the tiny planet of Mercury. The Messenger spacecraft has flown past ...

The strange, tinkling song of Mercury's magnetic field sounding like a chime in the solar wind has been detected for the first time ever. Known as "whistler-mode chorus waves," these bizarre chirping ...

The exhibit is comprised of a recently-restored Atlas missile and a mock Mercury capsule. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A trio of stars just under 5,000 light-years away has absolutely smashed a long standing record. TIC 290061484 is a system of gravitationally bound stars consisting of a tightly-orbiting binary pair ...