The Blue Origin rocket was delayed to no earlier than 1 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, due to unfavorable conditions offshore. The company delayed the launch to maximize chances at successfully landing the ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

The Wolf Moon is derived from Native American culture, in which during this time wolf packs could be heard howling on the ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...

The European Space Agency released stunning snapshots showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

A NASA spacecraft made history and is safe after making the closest-ever approach to the sun. On Tuesday, the Parker Solar Probe hurtled through the sizzling solar atmosphere and passed within a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has successfully made the closest approach to the sun, the space agency confirmed Friday. Earlier this week, the spacecraft passed within a record ...

NASA is getting up close and personal with the Sun. On Christmas Eve the Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the Sun than any spacecraft, orbiting 10 times closer than the planet Mercury.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has survived an up-close encounter with the sun, officially coming closer to the fiery star than any other spacecraft before it. The record-breaking solar approach took ...