A parade of planets is coming this January, but if you miss it, you can catch it in later months. Six planets in our solar ...

However, while no such events took place on that date, nor on his revised date of Dec. 25, 1919, the seeds of anxiety and ...

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

The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...

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

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

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

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...

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 European Space Agency released stunning snapshots showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

A planet parade like the one beginning tonight is quite uncommon, occurring once every 10-20 years. Here are the planets you ...