Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught a rare double eclipse, first when the Moon passed the Moon and then Earth followed ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in ...

A recent study has detected lithium in Mercury's exosphere using advanced magnetic wave analysis, marking a first in space ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Experts confirmed the discovery of a rare interstellar visitor—only the third ever detected—hurtling through our Solar System ...

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.

Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to use the gravitational pull of one planet to reach another and the first probe to visit two planets. Launched November 3, 1973, it reached Venus on February 5, ...