Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is full of surprises! Join us for an in-depth look at its physical ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

Mars is known as the 'Red Planet.' Learn about its reddish hue, caused by iron oxide, its position as the fourth planet from ...

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...