Mercury was once believed to be a dead and lifeless world, but new discoveries revealed by NASA missions have transformed the ...

The most impressive feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, a vast, multi-ringed crater over 800 miles across, which is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

NASA and the USGS created a topographic map of the closest planet to the sun. It's a view of Mercury that no one has ever seen before. They did it by using more than 100,000 pictures taken from NASA's ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

Mercury's crust contains far more sulphur than the crust of the Earth or the moon, and its magnetic field is lopsided toward the north, a NASA spacecraft has discovered. "What we are finding is that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 9, 1959, NASA introduced its very first astronaut class. This dashing group of young men is known as the Mercury 7. They ...

There’s a live press conference you can watch on the Huffington Post right now in which NASA scientists are discussing their findings. It seems that the polar regions of Mercury seem to have a lot of ...

On May 24, 1962, NASA astronaut Scott Carpenter became the fourth American to go to space and the second American to orbit the Earth.