The craft has taken more than 250,000 images. More than a decade after its launch, MESSENGER could crash into Mercury's surface any day. NASA predicted MESSENGER will crash into the planet nearest ...

The Messenger craft—short for Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geo-chemistry and Ranging—rocketed toward the dense, little planet with big plans. Mariner 10—the first spacecraft to visit ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. This image released by NASA shows an enhanced photo image of Mercury from its Messenger probe's 2008 flyby of the planet. This photo shows the eastern ...

Scientists controlling the U.S. space agency’s MESSENGER space probe have released the first photographs of Mercury ... craft since it began orbiting the solar system's innermost planet March ...