Mercury

Name That Crater On Mercury! MESSENGER Team Opens Public Contest

Here's your rare chance to leave a lasting mark on a piece of the Solar System. The team behind the…

10 years ago

Could Mercury Get A Meteor Shower From Comet Encke?

We're sure going to miss the MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury when it concludes its mission in 2015, because it keeps…

10 years ago

Delaying Death: Mercury Spacecraft Firing Engines To Stay Up Until 2015

Don't take these spectacular Mercury images (below the jump) for granted. Three weeks ago, NASA's orbiting Mercury spacecraft did an…

10 years ago

Mercury Spacecraft Moves To Testing Ahead Of 2016 Launch To Sun’s Closest Planet

After facing down a couple of delays due to technical difficulties, Europe's and Japan's first Mercury orbiter is entering some…

10 years ago

Mercury Pierces the Zodiacal Light at Dawn this Weekend

Psst! Ever spy the planet Mercury? The most bashful of all the naked eye planets makes its best dawn appearance…

10 years ago

Ice Alert! Mercury’s Deposits Could Tell Us More About How Water Came To Earth

New pictures of water ice at Mercury's north pole -- the first such optical images ever -- could help scientists…

10 years ago

A Triple Occultation Bonanza: A Challenging Series of Occultations This Weekend and More

Got clear skies? This week’s equinox means the return of astronomical Fall for northern hemisphere observers and a slow but…

10 years ago

MESSENGER Completes Second Burn to Maintain Mercury Orbit

A little over a week before NASA's MAVEN spacecraft fired its rockets to successfully enter orbit around Mars, MESSENGER performed a…

10 years ago

These Mercury Crater Pictures Look Like Amazing Abstract Art

We're lucky to have a spacecraft looking at Mercury and sending back information like this. NASA's MESSENGER satellite just beamed…

10 years ago

NASA Spacecraft Is Now Buzzing Mercury 62 Miles Above The Surface

Look out below! NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is at its lowest altitude of any spacecraft above Mercury, and over the next…

10 years ago