Here's your rare chance to leave a lasting mark on a piece of the Solar System. The team behind the…
We're sure going to miss the MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury when it concludes its mission in 2015, because it keeps…
Don't take these spectacular Mercury images (below the jump) for granted. Three weeks ago, NASA's orbiting Mercury spacecraft did an…
After facing down a couple of delays due to technical difficulties, Europe's and Japan's first Mercury orbiter is entering some…
Psst! Ever spy the planet Mercury? The most bashful of all the naked eye planets makes its best dawn appearance…
New pictures of water ice at Mercury's north pole -- the first such optical images ever -- could help scientists…
Got clear skies? This week’s equinox means the return of astronomical Fall for northern hemisphere observers and a slow but…
A little over a week before NASA's MAVEN spacecraft fired its rockets to successfully enter orbit around Mars, MESSENGER performed a…
We're lucky to have a spacecraft looking at Mercury and sending back information like this. NASA's MESSENGER satellite just beamed…
Look out below! NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is at its lowest altitude of any spacecraft above Mercury, and over the next…