A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole ... The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one for Europe and the other for Japan, that will ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare seven-planet alignment in February. This is what scientists hope to learn.

There are two other planets in the night sky ... Earlier this month, the BepiColumbo spacecraft took close-up images of its craters. If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it ...

A very rare treat is about to grace Earth's night skies.

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?