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 ...

BepiColombo science. ESA noted that going to Mercury would help scientists not only understand how the planet had formed, but also give more information generally about the solar system's formation.

This is our solar system from 6 billion kilometers away. Voyager 1 snapped this first-ever family portrait of our solar system on February 14, 1990 as its very last photograph before turning off ...

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6.4 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from the center of the solar system, Voyager 1 looked back at the home it left behind in 1977, at the gas giant Jupiter, which it flew past in 1979; and ...

Before it met the 30,000-50,000 kelvin wall at the edge of our Solar System, Voyager 1 took its final images.

While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun is breathtaking. The small planet even appears as a black disk silhouetted against the bright solar star that our solar system is centered around.

Which sounds like a lot again, but if you take the solar system as it is today, completely isolated from the rest of the universe, there’s about a 1% chance that Mercury will crash into Venus ...

The planets of the solar system were lined up in the sky Wednesday night in an astronomical phenomenon, visible from Earth, known as a "planet parade." The phenomenon, which was also visible ...