A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions ...

The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger fraction of its volume – 85% compared to 15% ...

Just south of Mercury’s equator lies a crater honoring Czech composer Leoš Janáček. Battered and time-worn, it sits amid countless others dotting the barren, broiling terrain of the solar system’s ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snaps rare close-up images of Mercury during a planned gravity-assist flyby in 2023. Credit: ESA / JAXA A complex mission to Mercury that began its epic space voyage six ...

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little ...

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