Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...
A person shines a flashlight into the night sky on Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Social media has been abuzz about the ongoing alignment of planets, with ...
Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life. A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and Japan made its final fly-by over the planet ...
As it circled it, it snapped these incredible images of one of the Solar System's most mysterious planets. BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. It relies on two different orbiters ...
The maneuver put the spacecraft on course to enter orbit around Mercury late next year. The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one for Europe and the other for Japan, that will circle the planet's ...