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

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is full of surprises! Join us for an in-depth look at its physical ...

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.

Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...

A planet-sized visitor possibly visited the solar system billions of years ago and permanently changed the cosmic neighbourhood by warping the orbital path of four outer planets of the system, a ...

The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.

Discover Snapchat Planets Order, a creative feature in Snapchat Plus to rank your closest friends like planets in a solar ...