Five planets will become visible in the September night sky, creating a planetary viewing opportunity for skywatchers around ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That's right, Mercury is on its way to a sky near you, where it will turn a two-planet conjunction into a full-on planet parade.

How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

On a planet without an atmosphere, such as Mercury, this energy escapes directly into space. As a result, there is an ...

The June evening sky this year is exceptionally interesting. A spectacular gathering of three planets, two bright stars, plus, later this month, a slender crescent moon, will be the chief celestial ...

Europe’s BepiColombo mission is approaching a decisive phase in its journey toward Mercury, where the spacecraft will begin a ...