For decades, Mercury has been seen as astatic, heavily cratered planet, a relic of early Solar System history. Its surface, scorched by the Sun and seemingly untouched by change, gave every appearance ...

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...

NASA's Mercury-orbiting spacecraft, Messenger, is going out with a bang this week, adding a hefty crater to the little planet closest to the sun. The first spacecraft to circle Mercury, Messenger is ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NASA’s Messenger mission showed Mercury is not dead. From mysterious hollows, volcanic plains, to a shifted magnetic field, this video unveils evidence of active geology. Learn about the massive ...

NASA and the USGS created a topographic map of the closest planet to the sun. It's a view of Mercury that no one has ever seen before. They did it by using more than 100,000 pictures taken from NASA's ...

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 ...

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 ...