The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

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

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose ... traveling way past Uranus' orbit, with some even grazing Mercury's path. And they were relatively ...

If you've ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the sun ... sometimes pointing more toward the sun and sometimes more away from it. So, Earth's orbit only has a relatively tiny deviation ...

While claims of a “rare alignment” are overblown, you can still see up to six planets in the night sky this weekend. Here's ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury ... pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it difficult for spacecraft to slow down enough to enter orbit around the ...

BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of the closest planet to the sun on Jan. 8. It flew just a few hundred kilometers ... mission's two orbiters – ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s ...

The ESA reports that BepiColombo has completed its final gravity assist maneuver around the planet ... It's difficult to enter the orbit of Mercury, which orbits the Sun very quickly and with ...

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

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 spacecraft.

Early 2025 is a good time for skygazing and spotting up to seven planets in the night sky – if you have a little help.