Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! This view allowed scientists to get a view directly into the perpetually shadowed craters of Mercury.

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee by the name of Ham blasted off on a Mercury-Redstone rocket and became the first hominid to ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

Related: Mercury stuns in incredibly detailed new images ... “One needs a lot of fuel with a very big rocket for launch, or one can use the help of the planets and do planetary flybys ...

That will leave the ESA's Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter to study the world in detail. The mission launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket in 2018, and it's been lining ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) ...

Following stage separation, the booster landed on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean roughly ...

Set to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, the mission focuses on navigation ... are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth ...

Rocket Mortgage, the nation's largest mortgage lender, picked up a recent legal win as President Donald Trump's new administration takes over two other high-profile cases involving ...

Debris from the Starship rocket that imploded after launch lit up the sky as it fell back to Earth. It added that during the event, it briefly activated a “Debris Response Area” protocol to ...

Elon Musk’s Starship rocket has exploded just minutes into its seventh test flight, with footage showing streaks lighting up the sky. Footage shared to X shows the rocket, which launched from ...