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 ...
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 ...
Space exploration often feels like a journey with no clear end. Engineers plan for years, and spacecraft travel millions of kilometers while sending back tiny pieces of data that slowly reveal the ...
Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s innermost planet could be on Earth, potentially shedding light on a world ...
The mini-satellite, named 3UCubed, was built over 5 years by students at Sonoma State, Howard and the University of New ...