Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

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 ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for. View on ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Skywatchers across the Northern Hemisphere have caught a fleeting glimpse of Mercury as it made one of its final visible appearances of the year. Appearing low on the southwestern horizon just after ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: JAXA/ESA The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet ...

Ground teams cannot restore the spacecraft's full thrust, forcing it to take a different trajectory on its way to the innermost planet. Reading time 3 minutes The European Space Agency (ESA) is having ...

On March 25, the MESSENGER spacecraft completed its 4,000th orbit of Mercury, and the lowest point in its orbit continues to move closer to the planet than ever before. The orbital phase of the ...

Taken with MESSENGER's wide-angle camera on Tuesday, this image is actually a composite of eight pictures, each taken through a different color filter (MESSENGER has 11 filters in total). Debussy, the ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These ...