A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has quietly unsettled planetary science for decades: how does a planet like this ...

Part 2 explores the dramatically different approaches to the launch systems, and the surprising similarities in the factors that contributed to their success. Although they served very different ...

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...

Despite being relatively close to us, planet Mercury is one of the least studied places in this solar system. At first, our species ignored it because the conditions there, so close to the Sun, are ...

2026 is set to deliver historic moon missions, groundbreaking commercial space stations and powerful new space telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

Although NASA’s Project Mercury and SpaceShipOne served very different objectives, a closer look reveals that both missions were powered by equal parts of competition, innovation, and a strong dose of ...