Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, the pictured craters are some of the coldest places in the solar system. Evidence suggests they ... to the Italian Space Agency's tethered ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet ... difficult to reach the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

"This makes these unlit craters some of the coldest places in the Solar System ... Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet," said BepiColombo's Project ...

A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that ... what the ESA calls “some of the coldest places in the Solar System.” The shivery situation is to be further investigated ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system ... of Mercury’s mysteries with the data from this flyby as we can,” Geraint Jones, BepiColombo’s project ...

Named Prokofiev, Kandinsky, Tolkien, and Gordimer, the craters are some of the coldest places in the solar system, despite Mercury being ... Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on ...

showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system's smallest, innermost planet.Cameras also captured views of neighboring volcanic plains and Mercury's largest impact crater ...