The ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury yesterday for the sixth time, just 183 miles above the planet's north pole ... A Space Odyssey. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?

Mercury is one of the closest planets to Earth. According to NASA, it orbits the sun in less than 90 days. At points of the year, it looks like Mercury is moving backward in its orbit around the sun.

In the early morning hours of June 3, six planets, including Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune and Saturn will momentarily align on the ecliptic path, however, experts say they will not all ...

As it circled it, it snapped these incredible images of one of the Solar System's most mysterious planets ... of looks like a Star Trek starship. We've seen BepiColombo images of Mercury before ...

Although it is the smallest planet in the Solar System (excluding dwarf planets like Pluto), it has a surprisingly large Fe core, which makes it unusually dense and also has led to Mercury having ...

Measurements from MESSENGER's MLA instrument during the spacecraft's greater than four-year orbital mission have mapped the topography of Mercury's northern hemisphere in great detail. Credits ...

When does Mercury go into retrograde? Our planet of the mind and the mouth ... a deceleration that looks like a reversal from our vantage here on beautiful, broken planet Earth.

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar ... They would look like pure diamonds," he said. Could the diamonds ever be ...