Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Close-up images from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft revealed that Mercury’s surface records impacts of almost unimaginable scale ...

The BepiColombo mission has been on its way to Mercury since 2018 and will finally start orbiting the planet and taking X-ray ...

This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is extremely ...

A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...

The year 2026 is officially here and is all set to a spectacular one for stargazers. This guide will break down the planetary ...

There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) —This week, the night sky will provide the opportunity to view up to seven planets in our solar system. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible to the naked ...

The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...