Mercury will reach its highest point in the evening sky tonight (April 11), with the closest planet to the sun shining ... a morning apparition. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...

However, since this world doesn't have much of a real ... Mercury's interior continues to cool and the planet contracts," Tom Watters, Smithsonian senior scientist at the National Air and Space ...

During this mission, Mariner 10 photographed about 45 percent of the planet’s surface. A NASA mission called MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) became the ...

Jonathan O’Callaghan Noticeably absent from these documented space rocks are confirmed meteorites from our solar system’s innermost planets, Venus and Mercury. It is typically hypothesized ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a video showing a flyby of Mercury, the planet closest to our sun. The images that make up the clip were captured by ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter ...

She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the ... Saturn and our home planet, as well as being remotely observed at Uranus and Neptune. Now, Mercury joins the fray of planets ...

Launched in 2018 along with Japanese space agency JAXA, the spacecraft is preparing to go into orbit around Mercury in 2026, when it will perform up-close analysis of the planet’s surface ...

If you've never seen the smallest planet in our solar system with your ... phase — appearing more than half-lit. According to Space.com, Mercury will be at its brightest and easiest to spot ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north ... directly over the planet's north pole. The European Space Agency (ESA) released the ...

It's the sixth time the spacecraft — launched in 2018 by the European Space ... Mercury has an unusual composition. Like Earth, it has a metal core. But Mercury's metal core takes up 80% of the ...

Five planets will align around sunrise Saturday ... You can see Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Uranus and Mercury lined up in the sky Saturday. However, you will need a pair of binoculars to have ...