Most people learned in school that Mercury is just a small, scorched planet close to the Sun. But NASA’s MESSENGER mission ...

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 ...

NASA is asking for the public's help, but there's a catch. Mercury's surface is seen in exaggerated color in this image provided by NASA. NASA/JHU APL/CIW — -- NASA is asking for the public's ...

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...

NASA and the USGS created a topographic map of the closest planet to the sun. It's a view of Mercury that no one has ever seen before. They did it by using more than 100,000 pictures taken from NASA's ...

The meteorites could open up a new avenue to understand Mercury, pictured, which is notoriously hard to study due to its proximity to the sun. NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...

NASA’s Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft dropped into orbit around the tiny, orbitally eccentric planet just a few months ago, and it’s already sent back enough data to notably alter our take on the ...

As the Soviet Union put the first man in space in April of 1961, the Americans were already preparing a similar mission.

With NASA's International Space Station set to come out of service in 2030, American aerospace firm Vast has stepped into a ...