Late next year, the joint JAXA/ESA BepiColombo mission will enter orbit around Mercury, as part of its 18-month nominal mission. Tacking the winds that ply the solar system may yet have its day ...

“Now that we can look at our own solar system in the context of all these other planetary systems, one of the most interesting features is the absence of planets inside the orbit of Mercury,” said ...

But there’s still another way to virtually explore most of the solar system a la Google Maps ... except here you can also fly over Mercury, Venus, Mars, plus several moons — not just our ...

Inner dark comets can be found within the inner solar system, which includes the planets Earth, Venus, Mars and Mercury, and ...

Crawford is confident in the veracity of the research. "I'm sure these are the coldest temperatures in the inner solar system [from Mercury to Mars] and also colder than the estimated average ...

Out in the solar system, the weather gets wacky – with ... NARRATOR: Venus's extreme greenhouse effect means it's even hotter than Mercury. Which is why what we would find there is so extraordinary.

This week Mercury joins the queue. Now every other world in our solar system will be visible among the stars at the same time — if you know where to look. According to Gerard van Belle ...

The planet is about 10% larger than Jupiter, but much hotter because it is 13 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our ... been elusive outside our solar system, Fu said.

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research.