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. The ...

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. The European Space Agency (ESA ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new photos of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains. On January 8, the spacecraft passed the tiny planet for the ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet closest to our Sun. Nearby volcanic plains and the largest impact cater on Mercury–over 930 miles wide ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

The flyby images, all black-and-white 1024x1024 ... flyby image showcases the Nathair Facula near Mercury’s upper edge, the site of the planet’s largest volcanic explosion.

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

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

The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to send a spacecraft to Mercury. This latest round of photos comes via the ...