If the solar system had a corporate structure, Jupiter would be the CEO, while Saturn ensures rules are followed. Venus ...

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

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but with a telescope you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is full of surprises! Join us for an in-depth look at its physical characteristics, surface features, and mysterious magnetic field, all captured in ...

Understanding Mercury can help scientists understand Earth and how the rocky planets of the inner solar system formed. The BepiColombo flyby images are a tantalizing preview of the science yet to ...

If planets had social media accounts, the solar system would showcase a frenzy of unique personalities. Mercury tweets at ...

“There are three instances (all realizations about the sky before I was 12): First was when as a child, enthralled with the rockets of the space program, I realized that Mercury astronauts Shepard, ...

The image features Mercury’s terminator—the separation ... Those eternally dark areas are some of the coldest places in the solar system, despite the fact that Mercury is the closest planet ...

One of the images captured by BepiColombo during ... This makes these unlit craters some of the coldest places in the Solar System, despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun," said ...