The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Astrologers and astronomers are unlikely to agree on the relationship between the motion (or perceived motion) of Mercury and such events in the daily lives of humans on a planet two worlds over ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

Mercury has the shortest and fastest orbit around the Sun and experiences dramatic temperature changes as it rotates. It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet.

Mercury retrograde occurs when the inner planet appears to move backward ... had an incredible impact on modern humans. That the planets appear to go backward is a powerful observation that ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...

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, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...