A U.S. spacecraft beamed hundreds of photos of Mercury back to Earth on Tuesday after a close encounter with the planet closest to the sun. The images show scientists never-before-seen landscapes on ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft was proposed in 1998 and launched in 2004, but didn't enter Mercury orbit until 2011. Therefore, what are the next steps for developing future missions to return samples ...

The military has provided these services since Project Mercury, the country's ... conducting NASA's crew rotation missions to the International Space Station. SpaceX and Boeing were both awarded ...

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated National Astronaut Day on the 64th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming the first ...

Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...

61 years ago, humanity reached space for the second time with NASA 's Project Mercury. On the morning of May 5, 1961, naval aviator and test pilot Alan B. Shepard Jr. hopped onto the Freedom ...