An curved arrow pointing right. Mercury only comes between Earth and the Sun about 13 times every century. The last time this happened was in 2006. This rare event will occur again this Monday ...

Scientists from Australia have successfully bioengineered genetically modified fruit flies and zebrafish capable of absorbing ...

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

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

Mercury ' s inner core is solid and about the same size as Earth ' s inner core, a new study using observations from NASA's MESSENGER mission has indicated. Mercury is the smallest planet in our ...

Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, is 2,440 kilometres. Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by ...

NASA launched an astronaut into orbit around the Earth for the first time. John Glenn was the third American to launch into ...

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft, a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), completed its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on January 8.