CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles ...

"We do not have a single sample, in the form of a meteorite, from Mercury and Venus," Yap tells Universe Today. "The building blocks of both planets are derived from the innermost solar system ...

Even before the Mercury Seven astronauts were selected, NASA reached out to 20 different companies to begin developing a human-rated spacecraft. The first three Mercury spacecraft were built 10 ...

But in a way, they essentially became guinea pigs for NASA's new human spaceflight program, because they didn't get to do much piloting inside the Mercury spacecraft. Some of the pilots weren't ...

But in 1959, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was selected as the primary contractor to produce the Mercury spacecraft for NASA’s project Mercury. Not long after, things changed for Jones.

BepiColombo launched in 2018, but after six flybys is due to enter Mercury's orbit (as opposed to just swooping by) in late 2026. The spacecraft will then split into two orbiters that will observe ...

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 ...

This week, Popular Mechanics published cutaway diagrams of ships that will be ... This is the closest a spacecraft has ever gotten to Jupiter, and over thirty or forty orbits, Juno will fly ...

Website Outer Places have created a graphic showing the location of all active probes in the solar system These range from Nasa's Messenger spacecraft, currently in orbit around Mercury ...

NASA's Messenger mission unveiled the first picture of the planet Mercury taken by an orbiting spacecraft on Tuesday, and promised to provide more goodies in the days and months to come.