The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft achieved a monumental milestone on January 8, 2025, with its sixth and final flyby of Mercury. This maneuver brought the spacecraft to just 185 miles ...

Flawed rocket launches by SpaceX and Blue Origin still leave both companies in position to dominate the space sector.

Miss Sam, a rhesus monkey, successfully flew onboard a Mercury test capsule to prove the effectiveness of the launch escape ...

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