NASA's Messenger spacecraft was the first dedicated to orbiting Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet. It studied Mercury from 2011 to 2015, when its mission ended.

The images, taken by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft (short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging), suggest that the ice lurking within Mercury's polar craters was ...

The Messenger spacecraft sends home the first-ever photos from orbit around the inhospitable planet, the first of more than 75,000 to come in the next year. NASA snaps first images from Mercury ...

“Project Mercury officially ended on June 12, 1963, when NASA administrator James Webb told Congress that the agency would proceed with the two-man Gemini program,” Bisney and Pickering write.

September 21, 2022: This photo of Neptune was taken on July 12, 2022, the day NASA began publishing images made using the James Webb Space Telescope. Neptune had not been photographed for three ...

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.

NASA has released some amazing images of Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system. These stunning images will you provide a unique glimpse into Mercury's dynamic features.

7 surprising Mercury images shared by NASA you can't miss. 07 Nov, 2024. Abhijeet Sen. NASA image captures mosaic of Caloris basin on planet Mercury . NASA image shows Mercury's north polar region .

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to NASA.But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury ...

NASA images: Our planet Earth is a part of a giant solar system, which is placed in a humungous galaxy named the Milky Way. Our home galaxy is a large spiral galaxy with a star disk spanning over ...

NASA/JHUAPL/CIW . This wide-angle camera photo from Nshowing a never-before-imaged area of Mercury’s surface was taken from an altitude of ~450 km (280 miles) above the planet during the ...