Freddie Mercury, the legendary frontman of Queen, wasn't just a powerhouse vocalist who redefined rock and roll. He was also ...

Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the type that is supposed to carry the first astronaut into orbit some time in late 1961. Instead of soaring 200 miles ...

The spacecraft flew between Mercury and the sun, getting to within 37,630 km from the small planet's surface at 15:23 CET. This is much farther than its first four flybys of the planet ...

So when John Glenn blasted off to circle Earth three times, his Friendship 7 spacecraft did it aboard a more powerful Mercury-Atlas rocket combination. Glenn's Feb. 20, 1962, mission was another ...

The probe launched in 2018 atop an Ariane 5 rocket on an eight-year voyage that will place it in orbit around Mercury. The original mission plan had the spacecraft arriving in December 2025 ...

Once there, the spacecraft will separate into two separate orbiters: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. The pair will then study the small, hot world with ...

Listen to Story The video is a time-lapse sequence of unprocessed images It shows the planet's cratered landscape It highlights the stark contrasts between its sunlit and shadowed sides The ...

BepiColombo is operated by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The probe launched in 2018 atop an Ariane 5 rocket on an eight-year voyage that will place it in orbit around ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft made the "closest flyby of a planet ever" when it flew by Mercury, according to ESA. See time-lapsed imagery of the flyby shot. Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM ...

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Texas is in the playoffs no matter what happens in the pro-Georgia environment. But the Longhorns are craving the chance to sweep the SEC (regular season, conference title game) in their first ...