The spacecraft just wrapped up its first flyby of the cratered planet on Oct.1. It sent back Mercury images. The black and white images ... planet's surface is in the background.

After tonight, the tiny planet will appear lower in the sky each day. But stay tuned, because this Sunday, Mercury, Venus, and the Moon will paint a beautiful picture as they cluster together in ...

Swathes of iridescent blue, sandy-coloured plains and delicate strands of greyish white ... (background). You’ve probably never seen Mercury. As the Solar System’s innermost planet, it ...

Mercury is finally back in the spotlight, with a space probe zooming past its cratered surface for the first time in six years. As it flew past Mercury on Friday, the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet, has gained a yearlong visitor from Earth - a spacecraft named Messenger that mission controllers guided successfully into a long, looping orbit around ...

Here’s how it works. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and also the smallest planet in the solar system. The small and cratered planet does not have any moons and zips around the sun ...

It's the third of four times Mercury will be moving in retrograde this year. Mercury isn't the only planet that will retrograde this year. Retrograde motion in astronomy is an apparent motion of ...