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A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...

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

But it does tell us something important about our ever-changing view of the solar system. Here's everything you need to know about Mercury in retrograde — why it happens and what it really means ...

This makes these unlit craters some of the coldest places in the Solar System, despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun," said ESA, adding: "Excitingly, there is existing evidence that ...

Yes! There's so much we still don't know about the smallest, somewhat mysterious member of our solar system closest to the sun. What we do know is that Mercury has an unusual composition. Like Earth, ...

showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our Solar System’s smallest, innermost planet. Close-up photos of Mercury’s north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo.

Our solar system consists of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, as well as countless asteroids and comets, that are gravitationally bound to the Sun.