Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet.

But if Mariner 10’s mission was historic, so was the Boeing-built spacecraft itself, which for the first time used the gravity of one world (Venus) to reach another (Mercury) and in doing so ...

Mariner 10 was the seventh successful launch in the Mariner series and the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet (Venus) to reach another (Mercury). It was also the first probe ...

Image of Mercury captured by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, the first probe to visit Mercury. (Image credit: NASA/JPL/USGS) Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, its surface can ...

NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft got a look at Venus in 1974. Cosmos 482 never made it to the planet. 33,259 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,259 ...

On November 13, 1971, Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit Mars. At the time, scientists didn't know much about the Red Planet. NASA had several flybys before Mariner 9.

When Mariner 4 flew by Mars on July 15, 1965, it captured the first images of another planet from space. But the first image of Mars ever seen on TV was different than expected.

NASA image of Venus taken by the Mariner 10 spacecraft (main) and stock image of the ocean (inset). Venus may never have had liquid water, researchers have found.

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to ...