The Blue Ghost lunar mission has captured a gorgeous image of Earth as it ramps up its journey toward the moon.

Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is full of surprises! Join us for an in-depth look at its physical ...

While our planet takes 365 days to circle the sun, a year on HD 189733 b takes just 2.2 days, with an orbital speed of 340,000 mph. Since its discovery in 2005 by French astronomers who saw it ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury ... Flying 295 km above Mercury, it photographed icy craters, volcanic plains, and the planet's largest impact crater.

(AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury’s night ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8 ...

The spacecraft executed its sixth and final gravity-assist flyby of the enigmatic planet, capturing some of the most detailed images yet of Mercury’s surface. This critical maneuver, which ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of ... miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole.