Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the ...

Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, is 2,440 kilometres. Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by ...

All planets appear this way from Earth at various points, as they orbit the Sun at different speeds. People have observed Mercury going into retrograde for thousands of years, and many believers ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

When it does, scientists say that the Sun will destroy Earth, Mercury, and Venus, leaving our entire solar system devastated. One day, the Sun may destroy Earth or make it unlivable due to the ...

BepiColombo, the joint European-Japanese mission to Mercury, has swung past the Earth - a key milestone in its seven-year journey to reach the "iron planet." The gravitational flyby enabled the ...

Small in comparison to the gas planets found further from the Sun, they also rotate at a more sedate pace and have few moons… The four rocky planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.