The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as spacecraft get closer to Mercury, the sun's enormous gravity ...

NASA's MESSENGER mission to Mercury ended recently and, having run out of fuel, the spacecraft was crashed into the planet. But in the last months of its life, the probe did exciting and risky ...

Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator, member of the Mercury 13, and the oldest woman ever to travel into space, has died, ...

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After ...