A NASA spacecraft heading for Mercury has beamed to Earth an amazing space photo: A family portrait of six major planets in our solar system. To make the planet photo mosaic, NASA's Messenger ...

A striking new "planetary parade" photo combines images of six solar system worlds alongside the ... "The only missing planet was Mercury, which will become visible towards the end of the month ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet this ... NASA's Europa Clipper probe snaps ghostly thermal portrait of Mars en route to Jupiter NASA's Europa ...

Mercury is a planet of extremes. With a total volume little more than the Moon, it is the smallest planet in the Solar System and is situated the closest to the Sun. Mercury has no atmosphere to ...

The planets of the solar system were lined up in the sky Wednesday ... gave skywatchers a good view of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with the naked eye. With a pair of binoculars ...

Hold tight, the solar system is going to get bumpy in a few months. Mercury retrograde is on its way. Maybe you've heard people lament over the astrological phenomenon, blaming their woes on the ...

Mercury doesn’t have a moon. One day on Venus equals 243 Earth days and is the hottest planet in the solar system reaching up to 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Venus has a radius of 3,760.4 miles which ...

How our own Solar System came to be ... giant impact is thought to have torn away the outer layers of the young Mercury, leaving a small planet dominated by its iron core. Radiation from the ...

While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ... gas giants and the rocky terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars).