Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

You might think Mercury, the planet closest to Earth on average, would be the easiest to reach. But you'd be wrong. Thanks to its high speed around the Sun and deep gravity well, it's one of the most ...

"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

The attitude hand controller was old news, however; it had been used in Mercury as well as on some Soviet space missions. The significant innovation on Gemini came with the insignificant-looking T ...

However, the BepiColombo mission — a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the European Space Agency — is currently en route to Mercury, with its arrival ...

On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced the “Mercury Seven,” its first seven astronauts: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald “Deke” Slayton, to ...

The spacecraft Messenger, launched by NASA in August, will travel for six-and-a-half years before it goes into orbit around the planet Mercury for a mission that's to last two days. Two Mercury ...

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneer ...