Mercury, often considered the “elusive planet,” is notoriously difficult to observe due to its proximity to the Sun. However, ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Mercury's post-retrograde shadow period ends on Dec. 16, and you should use this time to recover from the recent Mercury ...

Mercury, the first planet from the Sun - The Forgotten Planet. With the search for life beyond Earth primarily focusing on Mars and the rest of the solar system, it’s easy to forget about the small ...

Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...

View of planet Mercury from space. Space, nebula and planet Mercury. This image elements furnished by NASA. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to Canyonlands National ...

Europe's Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing a surface riddled with craters, including one that just received a name. The ...

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

Despite being among the brightest objects in the sky, Mercury is a planet very rarely seen by even experienced stargazers. The next couple of weeks offer the best opportunity in 2013 for observers in ...