Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, the pictured craters are some of ... to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on the US space shuttles.

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

Although Mercury is a largely dark planet, its younger features (or more ... this flyby as we can,” Geraint Jones, BepiColombo’s project scientist at ESA, said in a statement.

Related: Mercury stuns in incredibly ... or one can use the help of the planets and do planetary flybys,” adds Johannes Benkhoff, ESA BepiColombo Project Scientist. “We needed nine flybys ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the ... tethered satellite project that flew ...

Here's how, where, and when to see the planets line up — including a bonus appearance from Mercury. The planets are lining up ... For an at-home peek at the planetary parade, the Virtual Telescope ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.