Mercury will enter the enchanting and intuitive sign of Pisces, replacing logic with an elusive blend of emotion, imagination ...

But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some craters on its surface that never see sunlight. It also has the most extreme temperatures of ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

Take advantage of a special 6-7 planet alignment from Earth's perspective. Planets 'line up' in the skies over California in ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The alignment peaks on January 25 and Mercury joins the ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...

This January and February, a rare planetary alignment featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will be visible, with Mercury joinin ...