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 moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" ...

On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 times farther from the planet than on its previous flyby, which saw it come ...

"Our study uses geophysical data collected by the NASA MESSENGER spacecraft." MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, ...

sustainability and space. Has life seemed a little more chaotic than lately the past few weeks? According to many followers of astrology, part of the reason could be the pesky planet Mercury.

Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the type that is supposed to carry the first astronaut into orbit some time in late 1961. Instead of soaring 200 miles ...

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.