Anyone with any kind of planet-gazing past could tell you ... same time to try for a glimpse of an ever lower Mercury‚ by then about to drop out of view—with a super-slim crescent Moon beside ...

New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the planet's surface.

and each will enter its respective orbit around Mercury in late 2026. The mission carried out its first flyby of the planet in October 2021 and has been returning gorgeous close-up images of the ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of the closest planet to the sun on Jan. 8. It flew just a few hundred ...

The planet Mercury is mainly made up of iron. Mercury has no moons. The planet's close proximity to the Sun makes having moons impossible, as the star's strong gravitational pull would likely pull ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...