Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...

Have you ever wondered why all the planets in our solar system orbit in the same plane? This fascinating characteristic of planetary orbits has intrigued astronomers for centuries. When we observe the ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun and the smallest planet in the solar system. Here we explore the strange world in more detail.

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it difficult for spacecraft to slow down enough to enter orbit around the ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

So, Mercury could crash into Venus and then that’s it, nothing else happens,” Brown said. If Neptune is pulled even just 0.1 percent out of its orbit it could have devastating consequences for ...

BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek of the cratered planet it will begin to orbit in 2026.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, with its average distance about 36 million miles (58 million km).

Astronomers have spotted a bizarre exoplanet with the most oblong, hairpin-style orbit ever discovered, and it may be on the path to becoming a “hot Jupiter.” ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0.2 percent probability that Earth will be involved in a planetary collision ...

Future Prospects In the Mercury flyby observations, the team prepared for the comprehensive electromagnetic environment survey using the planned Mio spacecraft probe in orbit around Mercury.

A circumsolar dust ring has been recently discovered close to the orbit of Mercury. There are currently no hypotheses for the origin of this ring in the literature ...