NASA is asking for the public's help, but there's a catch. Mercury's surface is seen in exaggerated color in this image provided by NASA. NASA/JHU APL/CIW — -- NASA is asking for the public's ...

View of planet Mercury from space. Space, nebula and planet Mercury. This image elements furnished by NASA. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to Canyonlands National ...

NASA responded to Kim Kardashian after the reality star insisted that the 1969 moon landing “was fake” and that people “go to ...

(Left) A colorful view of Mercury produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission (Right) what Mercury may look like were its outer layers stripped to ...

Mercury is a mysterious world. As the closest planet to the sun, it’s a hard-to-reach destination for space missions. So far, only two have made it to Mercury—NASA’s Mariner 10 and MESSENGER ...

Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has a 10-mile-thick mantle of pure diamond, according to NASA. The report, derived from data taken from the NASA MESSENGER probe that orbited the red-hot planet ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is only slightly larger than Earth's moon and is pockmarked with craters. The planet is visible to the unaided eye and as such as has long been known to humans.

The countdown to the first flyby of Mercury by the MESSENGER spacecraft has begun. Sunday morning, MESSENGER will start recording the evidence of this historic event. At 8 a.m. EST on January 13 30 ...

Before computers, NASA relied on “human computers” — mathematicians who solved complex equations for flight paths and ...

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Alan Shepard and John Glenn in the Mercury suit room. On the cusp of human space flight truly becoming commonplace in which hundreds even thousands of ordinary citizens will get to view our planet ...

The meteorites could open up a new avenue to understand Mercury, pictured, which is notoriously hard to study due to its proximity to the sun. NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...