The government space agency has vocally promoted diversity and inclusion for decades, even during the first Trump ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation cou ...

BepiColombo follows in the footsteps of NASA's Mariner 10, which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which mapped it from 2008-2015. BepiColumbo is on a seven-year journey ...

NASA has issued a pause for several key scientific committees following President Trump's executive orders to end DEI in ...

“There are three instances (all realizations about the sky before I was 12): First was when as a child, enthralled with the rockets of the space program, I realized that Mercury astronauts Shepard, ...

After terminating its diversity programs, the space agency is reviewing whether several science committees are complying with ...

Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury ...

As part of Project Mercury, NASA prepared to send a chimpanzee, Ham, into space to test the effects of space on a living creature. What Was on the Menu at the First Thanksgiving? (02:31 ...

On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil ...

NASA Stennis representative Dawn Davis, left, interacts with people at the NASA booth during the 2025 FAN EXPO event hosted ...

Trapped NASA astronauts Butch Willmore and Suni Williams have embarked on their first spacewalk, spending around six hours ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.