Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life. A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and Japan made its final fly-by over the planet ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

As soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon's IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy ...

She told co-host Catherine Wheeler about new images of space that were released this week from the Rubin Observatory.  Catherine WheelerMercury is bright, plus new photos of space This image captures ...