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 ...

Before crashing into Mercury's surface, the MESSENGER probe sent a glorious visual archive back to Earth. Here's what the probe taught us about Mercury before it died. Share on Facebook (opens in a ...

For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury. The NASA spacecraft Messenger veered into a pinpoint orbit Thursday ...

Yesterday at 4:40AM east time, Nasa’s Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft) flew by just 125 miles over the surface of Mercury, the closest planet to the ...

The third lecture in the 2011 Exploring Space Lecture Series featured Sean C. Solomon, the Principal Investigator for the MESSENGER mission and the Director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism ...

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 ...

Mercury seen by Nasa’s Messenger spacecraft on the left. On the right, there’s an approximation of Mercury’s true colour as might be seen by the human eye. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University ...

WASHINGTON - For the first time, Earth has a regular orbiting eye-in-the-sky spying on the solar system's smallest and strangest planet, Mercury. The NASA spacecraft Messenger successfully veered into ...