From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space. The moon ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the first to "touch the sun." The Parker Solar Probe has ...

Calling its journey "as close to perfect as you can get, NASA announced its Messenger spacecraft has reached Mercury and is orbiting as close as 124 miles above the solar system's innermost planet.

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 ...

One of the most remarkable moments in early space exploration occurred during the final mission of NASA’s Mercury program. Astronaut Gordon “Gordo” Cooper spent more than a day in orbit aboard the ...