For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar system will be visible at once, with Mercury making a ...
Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
Surpassing expectations, NASA's OSIRIS-APEX endured a near-Sun passage, outperforming its heat tolerances and remaining ...
Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...
It will be "a celestial event where multiple planets in our solar system appear close together in the night sky." ...
January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and ...
A layer of diamonds was found beneath Mercury's surface. This could help scientists understand the planet's unusual magnetic ...
ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.
The spacecraft will continue its journey toward Mercury’s orbit, where it will study the ... primarily due to its proximity to the Sun. NASA estimates that daytime temperatures on the planet can reach ...
The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...