that will circle the planet's poles. The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in ...

Alongside a crescent moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn will become visible to stargazers just before dawn on Friday morning. According to NASA ... This planet parade — when planets align in ...

It is 66 years since the 'Mercury Seven', NASA's first astronauts. On April 9, 1959, NASA unveiled the seven astronauts who would be part of the historic Mercury Project, a pioneering US space ...