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 ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8 ...

The images, which reveal the depths of Mercury ... despite the fact that Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. Previous observations suggested that these permanent shadows might host frozen ...

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.

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Mercury is coming into better focus through the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft flew by the planet on Jan. 8, snapping a stunning set of closeups as it went. The images show the planet’s ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

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