Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot ...

New study finds solid diamonds beneath Mercury’s surface. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 A new study suggests Mercury might have a thick layer of ...

the spacecraft passed within just 180 miles of Mercury’s surface, enabling it to capture close-up images of the planet. It passed the planet’s night side, which faces out into space and away ...

AI-Driven Performance Prediction Model to Advance Space Electric Propulsion Technology? Feb. 4, 2025 — A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of ...

a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew ...

will focus on mapping the planet’s surface and studying its geological features, while the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio) will investigate Mercury’s magnetic field and space environment.

Oct. 30, 2024 — More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using ...

it has been assumed that the new mercury surface exposed in the jet is uncharged, and that the charging of the surface takes place comparatively slowly, so that if the drops follow one another ...

an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to the lunar surface. By Kenneth Chang Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken ... will carry the first NASA astronauts to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program.

Five rocket engines tested by China Aerospace Science and Technology Co Hydrogen-oxygen and methane-fuelled engines trialled for new rockets Engines to support lunar missions and advanced deep-space ...