You have no doubt already heard about Mercury retrograde and the effects of this scary phenomenon. Now, whenever bad luck ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

Mercury has long puzzled scientists as it possesses many qualities that aren't common to other solar system planets. These ...

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On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 times farther from the planet than on its previous flyby, which saw it come ...

Mercury has the shortest and fastest orbit around the Sun and experiences dramatic temperature changes as it rotates. It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet.

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.

In fact, every planet—and every moon—in the solar system will be in the sky during ... “On April 8, Uranus, Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn and Mars will all sit relatively close ...