Indeed, Mercury was far from impossible to glimpse during elongations as favorable as the upcoming one. Breaking space news ... and the amount of its surface illuminated by the sun will continue ...

From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer ... the data from this flyby as we can," ESA (European Space Agency) Project Scientist Geraint Jones said at the ...

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

As soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon’s IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. (WLOX) - NASA marked a milestone on Tuesday, February 18 with the installation of an RS-25 engine at the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The engine was installed on ...

Japan's Mio space probe now en route to Mercury ... As the closest planet to the sun, Mercury is exposed to strong plasma waves and its surface temperature measures up to 430 degrees.

18-second engine burn to lower its orbit around the moon. The maneuver brought the lander to an altitude of 75 miles (120 kilometers) above the lunar surface, where it will remain until beginning ...