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 ...

This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018, a manoeuvre that will assist the spacecraft in entering orbit around Mercury late next year.

MESSENGER, the Mercury explorer, made 4,104 orbits around the planet closest to our sun. Originally sent for a one-year science sortie, MESSENGER far outlasted its planned expiry and stayed in ...

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?

The planet, visited by the Messenger spacecraft, is covered in craters. This photograph from the spacecraft Messenger, the first ever to take images while in orbit around Mercury, shows a never ...

Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that the solar system's tiniest planet, Mercury, hides a not-so-tiny secret: a 10-mile-thick mantle of diamond.