The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this ...

NASA had not yet put a man in orbit around the Earth. That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced ...

That’s because these ion drives are real. The craft is actually two spacecraft in one with two different Mercury missions. The Mercury planetary orbiter will study the surface while the ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of the event on Jan. 9. Two moon landers on one rocket: Jan. 15 Two ...

After the end of the space shuttle program, NASA turned to private companies to fill the gap. That isn't working out for the ...

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