A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

Mercury ' s inner core is solid and about the same size as Earth ' s inner core, a new study using observations from NASA's MESSENGER mission has indicated. Mercury is the smallest planet in our ...

But one thing is certain. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, can't actually travel backward in retrograde, and doesn't impact us on Earth. The notion of Mercury retrograde, a common reference ...

Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, is 2,440 kilometres. Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by ...

The video footage shows Mercury's northern plains, characterised by ancient lava flows and craters that have remained in permanent shadow.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. When is Mercury retrograde? It starts today, and if you believe ...

The ideal time to observe this rare planetary alignment is shortly after sunset. At this time, the sky will be dark enough to ...

BepiColombo, the joint European-Japanese mission to Mercury, has swung past the Earth - a key milestone in its seven-year journey to reach the "iron planet." The gravitational flyby enabled the ...