The launch of MESSENGER, a NASA space probe set to conduct the first scientific investigation of Mercury as it orbits the planet, will be launched aboard a Boeing Delta II Heavy expendable launch ...

MESSENGER’s engineering and operations teams convened at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., early this morning to confirm the health and readiness of the ...

A NASA planetary exploration mission came to a planned, but nonetheless dramatic, end Thursday when it slammed into Mercury’s surface at about 8,750 mph and created a new crater on the planet’s ...

NASA has released new images from a spacecraft showing a side of Mercury which has never been seen before. Although NASA explored the planet previously in 1974 with the Mariner spacecraft, it only ...

NASA's MESSENGER has downloaded 1,500 close up images of Mercury, the first ever to be produced of the planet closest to the sun. NASA It took six minutes to send the image back to Earth, but NASA's ...