MESSENGER
MESSENGER Completes Second Burn to Maintain Mercury Orbit
A little over a week before NASA's MAVEN spacecraft fired its rockets to successfully enter orbit around Mars, MESSENGER performed a…
Mercury’s Hot Flow Revealed by MESSENGER
Our Sun is constantly sending a hot stream of charged atomic particles out into space in all directions. Pouring out from holes…
Mercury’s Ready For Its Close-Up, Mr. MESSENGER
Are you ready for a good close look at Mercury? At an incredible 5 meters per pixel, this is one of…
Mercury Had Quite The Explosive Past, Spacecraft Analysis Shows
Mercury -- a planet once thought to have no volcanism at all -- likely had a very active past, a…
Mercury Shrinking: the First Rock from the Sun Contracted More than Once Thought
Whatever Mercury's did to trim down its waistline has worked better than anyone thought -- the innermost planet in our…
Weekly Space Hangout – February 14, 2014: Space Valentines!
Host: Nicole Gugliucci Astrojournalists: Morgan Rehnberg, Brian Koberlein (more…)
Confused Mercury Crater Looks Icy, But May Be Evaporation Evidence
At first glance, you'd think that white stuff on the floor of Kertesz crater is ice, especially since that substance…
Comets Encke and ISON Spotted from Mercury
Two comets currently on their way toward the Sun have been captured on camera from the innermost planet. The MESSENGER…
Fly Across Mercury with MESSENGER!
Take a ride on the Mercury express and see what MESSENGER sees in these two new videos! Each made from…
Could Juno’s Path Near Earth Uncover A Flyby Mystery?
Every so often, engineers send a spacecraft in Earth's general direction to pick up a speed boost before heading elsewhere.…