View of planet Mercury from space. Space, nebula and planet Mercury. This image elements furnished by NASA. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to Canyonlands National ...

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 ...

Mercury is a mysterious world. As the closest planet to the sun, it’s a hard-to-reach destination for space missions. So far, only two have made it to Mercury—NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER ...

NASA is asking for the public's help, but there's a catch. Mercury's surface is seen in exaggerated color in this image provided by NASA. NASA/JHU APL/CIW — -- NASA is asking for the public's ...

(Left) A colorful view of Mercury produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission (Right) what Mercury may look like were its outer layers stripped to ...

Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has a 10-mile-thick mantle of pure diamond, according to NASA. The report, derived from data taken from the NASA MESSENGER probe that orbited the red-hot planet ...

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From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of ...

Alan Shepard and John Glenn in the Mercury suit room. On the cusp of human space flight truly becoming commonplace in which hundreds even thousands of ordinary citizens will get to view our planet ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos offered her a seat on the first crewed flight of his space tourism ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors ...