NASA’s Messenger Spacecraft Detects a 10-Mile-Thick Layer of Diamonds on Mercury The innermost planet of our solar system, ...

Mercury Scout would be a Discovery-class mission. The spacecraft would utilize a traditional launch carrier plus a kick stage booster to get it off the Earth and into a solar heliocentric orbit.

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

Three Chinese astronauts are on their way to their country's Tiangong Space Station after a successful rocket launch. This ...

China is expected to launch a new crewed mission into space this week, as Beijing takes steady steps towards its goal of ...

The next goal of Space Force's new international strategy is to "enhance interoperability and information sharing", meaning ...

China announced on Wednesday that a veteran astronaut will lead two crew members on their first flight to the Tiangong space ...

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 pioneer ...

A new study indicates that Mercury's core-mantle boundary (CMB) may possess a diamond layer that extends up to 18 kilometers ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit will return to Earth from the International Space Station Saturday, alongside his two Russian ...