Living up to its name, Mercury is the fastest planet in the solar system, speeding along at about 29 miles per second and ...

When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth's climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar ...

Look above the eastern horizon in the hours preceding dawn on Sept. 1 to find Venus shining among the stars of the ...

Andy Saunders painstakingly restores film from the dawn of human space exploration, helping us see through the eyes of the ...

The new book "Gemini and Mercury Remastered" features iconic images from the earliest days of human space exploration ...

Based on my research, which include image composites of two flyby views of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, I conclude that Mercury has not cooled and shrunken as much as previously thought.

Today in the history of astronomy, a map of the innermost planet reveals a surprise.

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

Scientists say fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe—not particles and waves.

The tiny planet Mercury stands 19° west of the Sun in the early-morning sky, located in Cancer near the Beehive Cluster.

Mercury will be close to Regulus embedded among the stars of the constellation Leo. Look to the east slightly ahead of dawn on Sept. 2 to catch a fleeting glimpse of fleet-footed Mercury alongside the ...