According to many followers of astrology, part of the reason could be the pesky planet Mercury. The basic belief is that when Mercury is in “retrograde”, things may not go as planned more ...

Much closer to the horizon and a distinct reddish color, the planet Mercury isn’t on most people’s observing lists. In fact, a professional astronomer last year told me it was impossible to ...

We'll see six planets in the first part of February – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn – and on Feb. 28, they'll be joined by Mercury. But not all of them will be visible to ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, residing just 36 million miles from our Solar System’s center. However, not too far above its surface, the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo probe ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...

M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury's north pole at 07:07 CET, when the spacecraft was about 787 km from the planet’s surface. The spacecraft’s closest approach of 295 km ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers ...

Almost every major planet retrogrades at times, but it can be especially dizzying when Mercury reverses course, so knowing the vibes of each 2025 Mercury retrograde period is a must. As the planet ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing planet’s Nathair Facula & Fonteyn crater taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo (European Space ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.