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Mercury in Retrogade? 2026 Space Mission Will Unveil Whether The Planet Should Exist

A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has quietly unsettled planetary science for decades: how does a planet like this ...
The Spokesman-Review

'The Clock Has Started:' Alan Shepard and the Mercury missions

Those were the words Alan Shepard used 60 years ago Wednesday to note his cockpit timepiece had begun running. This meant his Redstone rocket booster had left the ground sending him and his one-man ...
SpaceNews

Proteus Space Launches First AI Designed Spacecraft, Sets Multiple Records

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, CA – November 28, 2025 – Proteus Space announced the successful launch and first contact of MERCURY ONE, its inaugural four-payload ESPA class spacecraft. MERCURY ONE ...
EurekAlert!

Rice researchers find sulfur-rich Mercury magmas behave differently than Earth’s

Rice University researchers recreate Mercury rocks in the lab and find that sulphur plays a structural role inhabited by oxygen on Earth ...

Instead Of An Aircraft Carrier, This Ship Will Recover The Orion Spacecraft

The U.S. Navy doesn’t have a nuclear-powered carrier available, but the USS John P Murtha is well-suited to the recovery mission of the Orion space capsule ...