A person shines a flashlight into the night sky on Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Social media has been abuzz about the ongoing alignment of planets, with ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

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. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

As it circled it, it snapped these incredible images of one of the Solar System's most mysterious planets. BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It relies on two different orbiters ...

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 ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the mission into orbit around the planet Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

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.

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation cou ...

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 ...