The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet closest to our Sun. Nearby volcanic plains and the largest impact cater on Mercury–over 930 miles wide ...

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-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 ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Mercury is coming into better focus ... ESA’s third image is notable for some bright landscape features. “On this dark planet, younger features on the surface tend to appear brighter ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

As it circled it, it snapped these incredible images of one of the Solar System's most mysterious planets. BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It relies on two different orbiters ...

Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...