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 cou ...

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of ...

Mercury will retrograde three times during 2025. Here's what's important to know about each one, according to an astrologer.

Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury ...

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NASA Stennis representative Dawn Davis, left, interacts with people at the NASA booth during the 2025 FAN EXPO event hosted ...

On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

Here's when and how to watch the next full moon and February's rare planetary parade, starting with the shiny bright planet of Venus.

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...