Artist's impression of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft in orbit at Mercury. Smooth Never-Before-Seen Plains of Mercury NASA/JHUAPL/CIW ...

Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury? That's been the speculation from some corners aftera camera onboard NASA's STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material ...

Launched in 2018 along with Japanese space agency JAXA, the spacecraft is preparing to go into orbit around Mercury in 2026, when it will perform up-close analysis of the planet’s surface ...

This MESSENGER image was taken from a distance of about 18,000 kilometers (11,000 miles) from the surface of Mercury, at 20:03 UTC, about 58 minutes after the closest approach point of the flyby.

A joint effort of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft has been circling its target world, Mercury, for a while now, getting in ...

Our Solar System is home to eight extraordinary planets, each with its own unique features, mysteries, and beauty. This cosmic journey takes you from the Sun-scorched surface of Mercury to the icy ...

On Dec. 1, a camera onboard NASA's Stereo spacecraft recorded a wave of electrically charged material shooting out from the sun and blasting Mercury. Footage of this "coronal mass ejection" (CME ...

From a Cape Canaveral blockhouse the seven Mercury astronauts watched tensely last week as the countdown neared zero. Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the ...

The strange, tinkling song of Mercury's magnetic field sounding like a chime in the solar wind has been detected for the first time ever. Known as "whistler-mode chorus waves," these bizarre ...

See amazing photos of Mercury taken by MESSENGER spacecraft in April 2011 through 2012.