Forget Pluto, a hidden Mickey Mouse lives on Mercury. A NASA spacecraft has captured a spectacular photo of Mercury craters arranged in a shape that looks just like Disney's iconic cartoon mouse. The ...

Don’t shoot the Messenger – it’s already crashed into Mercury. NASA’s Messenger space probe, which has been orbiting the planet for more than four years, ran out of fuel and hit the surface at 3:26:02 ...

When NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft mapped Mercury in unprecedented detail, one crater stood out for all the wrong reasons. Its structure, composition, and internal features did not align with ...

One of the most remarkable moments in early space exploration occurred during the final mission of NASA’s Mercury program. Astronaut Gordon “Gordo” Cooper spent more than a day in orbit aboard the ...