The MESSENGER spacecraft is currently on its way to the innermost planet, Mercury. It launched in 2004, and will arrive at the tiny planet in 2011. Why so long? Mercury orbits the Sun very quickly, ...

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has captured a historic image of the planet Mercury. The image is the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's innermost planet. Over the ...

Facebook Inc. announced today that pictures are about to get a lot better on Messenger, as the popular chat app will now support images at 4K resolution, the maximum resolution supported by most new ...

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Last week, the Mercury probe MESSENGER passed by Venus, changing its orbit and preparing it for its series of rendezvouses (yeah, yeah, I know, three years of French I took) with the solar system’s ...

The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) space probe successfully entered into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011, and sent back the first images early this ...