The IAU recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to confer names on 16 impact craters on Mercury. The newly named craters were imaged during the mission’s first […] ...

The MESSENGER mission made its first flyby of Mercury 15 years ago today, January 14, 2008, with two more flybys of the planet after, with NASA finally inserting it into orbit on March 18, 2011.

The launch of the Mercury Messenger probe, which will conduct a detailed investigation of the first planet from the Sun, has been delayed. The spacecraft was due to launch at 0616 GMT on Monday from ...

The MESSENGER spacecraft launched on August 3, 2004, and after flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury will start a yearlong study of its target planet in March 2011. Dr.