Sixty-one years after it stood ready to send NASA's last one-man mission into orbit, the Mercury-Atlas 9 rocket is standing again. A replica is on display at the National Museum of the US Air Force.

Conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of Project Mercury, Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) became the first United States manned orbital spaceflight on February 20, ...

Space race history: ... This new exhibit represents the launch vehicle for USAF Maj. Gordon Cooper’s Mercury-Atlas 9 mission on May 15-16, 1963. (Ty Greenlees/U.S. Air Force) ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters. It's the sixth time the spacecraft — launched in 2018 by the European ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

NASA astronaut Walter “Wally” Schirra famously wore the second-gen Speedy on the Mercury-Atlas 8: Sigma 7 mission of 1962, earning it the title of “first Omega in Space.” ...

ULA scrubbed the initial Project Kuiper 2 launch try about 35 minutes before liftoff, citing an elevated purge temperature ...

M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury’s north pole, with the spacecraft about 787 kilometers from the planet’s surface. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM.

The SOHO spacecraft captured amazing imagery of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) zooming near the sun as the star unleashed a powerful X flare.

Following a months-long investigation, the mission team concluded that the spacecraft’s electrical thrusters would remain at lower levels, preventing it from entering Mercury’s orbit in 2025.