The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

Astronomers announced Thursday (January 25) they have observed the smallest exoplanet ... ESA says Hubble’s discovery opens the door to studying the planet in more detail, adding: "It’s ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet. You can check out the awe-inspiring images below. On January 8, the robotic explorer operated by ...

Over the past 200 years, astronomers have cataloged over a million asteroids in the solar system's main belt, down to the ...

In 2016, they discovered a system of Earth-sized planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST ... making them “the smallest main belt asteroids detected to date.” A few of these new asteroids may ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...