A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

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 ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Our analysis found that Mercury’s rates are very high across most of the driver profiles and ages we looked at. It has a very high ...

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.