ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

The spacecraft collected new data on Mercury using its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, or MERTIS. The ...

Ham the Astrochimp was launched from Brevard County for an 18-minute flight aboard a Mercury capsule that reached an altitude of 150 miles from Cape Canaveral.

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Retrograde Mercury in Sagittarius will align with retrograde Mars in Leo on Saturday, December 14, creating discord, ...

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

A depiction of apparent retrograde motion. Credit: NASA Mercury's southern hemisphere, as captured by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is full of unsolved mysteries. Using data from NASA’s MESSENGER mission, scientists ...

Slayton made his first space flight in 1975 as the Apollo docking module pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) mission. Donald "Deke" Slayton was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and conducted the ...

NASA has announced the discovery of seven astronomical objects that come in two flavors; they look like asteroids but ...

The United States is delaying its planned return to the Moon from 2026 to "mid-2027," citing heat shield issues and other ...