[Thursday, June 2, 2011] Of Interest: Mercury forms a beautiful crescent shape in this image, acquired as the MESSENGER spacecraft was high above Mercury's southern hemisphere. On the right side is the sunlit limb, separating Mercury from the darkness of space.

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[Friday, June 10, 2011] NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 16, to reveal new images and science findings from the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury.

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[Monday, June 13, 2011] Yesterday the MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed the first of four "hot seasons" expected to occur during its one-year primary mission in orbit about Mercury.

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[Wednesday, June 15, 2011] The MESSENGER spacecraft successfully completed its first orbit-correction maneuver today to reset its periapsis altitude - the lowest point of MESSENGER's orbit about Mercury relative to the planet's surface - from 506 KM to approximately 200 KM.

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[Thursday, June 16, 2011] Data from MESSENGER, the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, is giving scientists important clues to the origin of the planet and its geological history and helping them better understand its dynamic interior and exterior processes.

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[Friday, June 24, 2011] Researchers analyzing samples returned by NASA's 2004 Genesis mission have discovered that our sun and its inner planets may have formed differently than previously thought.

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