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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After its six-and-a-half year long flight and four year mission, NASA’s humble Messenger spacecraft is about to reach an explosive conclusion when it crashes into the surface of Mercury sometime ...

Taken with MESSENGER's wide-angle camera on Tuesday, this image is actually a composite of eight pictures, each taken through a different color filter (MESSENGER has 11 filters in total). Debussy, the ...

When NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft began photographing Mercury, scientists expected a quiet, lifeless world. Instead, the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The spacecraft Messenger rocketed away Tuesday on a long quest to reveal the secrets of mysterious, superhot Mercury, the sun's nearest planet. "A voyage of mythological ...