From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

The Earth is a little more complicated than the Moon and Mercury due to its thicker atmosphere. The Earth does gain a little ...

Mars was at opposition as Earth passed by it in our faster, inner orbit. Mars is still very bright and will continue to be so ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury’s night side before passing directly over the planet’s north pole. The European Space Agency released the ...

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

This marks the sixth mission of the BepiColombo probe in Mercury's orbit, bringing it to within just 183 miles of the most minor planet in the Solar System. The close views of the icy craters are ...

water ice hiding in shadowed craters, and an off-center magnetic field in the planet. There’s still a lot about this curious world that scientists have yet to figure out. Why is Mercury so ...

Mercury is a planet of extremes ... but ice may still lurk in its shadowy craters. It’s also the smallest planet in the solar system and it’s likely the least understood of all the terrestrial ...

making its year the shortest of all the planets. Despite being so close to the Sun, Mercury has a surprisingly large core made mostly of iron, which creates a strong magnetic field. The surface is ...