A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The only spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash landing Thursday. NASA’s Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study maps the infall of protons and electrons from the solar wind to geographical location on the surface of Mercury, giving scientists new insight into how interactions with the Sun alters the ...

CAPTURING MERCURY: NASA’s Messenger probe has completed its first orbital imaging pass at the planet Mercury, sending back a look at a portion of the south polar region never before imaged from a ...

After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system and six planetary flybys, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on at around 9 p.m. EDT on March 17, 2011. The ...

Think the moon has many craters? New photos from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury show the tiny inner planet has far more impressive battle scars from regular high-speed peltings by space rocks.

Could a passing star be on a collision course with our solar system and, eventually, Earth? It’s difficult to know if such an outcome is likely. Recently, researchers have found the Milky Way likely ...