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

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

Stargazers can witness a rare 'planet parade' in January and February 2024, where six planets align prominently in the night ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...