Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...
A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...
The inner planets Mercury and Venus will both be visible in the east-southeast sky before sunrise on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...
In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...