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

Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe ...

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.

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to ...

A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.

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

BepiColombo will follow a different trajectory on its way to Mercury, delaying the spacecraft’s insertion into orbit around the innermost planet from December 2025 to November 2026, ESA ...

Brevard's population skyrocketed 371% during the 1950s with Cape Canaveral missile testing, NASA and Project Mercury, ...