Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, has many features that have puzzled scientists for a long time. For […] ...

Late next year, the joint JAXA/ESA BepiColombo mission will enter orbit around Mercury, as part of its 18-month nominal mission. Tacking the winds that ply the solar system may yet have its day ...

Discover the order of planets in the solar system. From Mercury to Neptune, explore our solar system and learn more about our cosmic home. The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of ...

Earth has four seasons, but do other planets in our solar system also have hot summer days and cold winter nights?

Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is ...

But the Venera mission, which launched from Kazakhstan on March 31, 1972, failed long before the Soviets could attempt to ...

"We do not have a single sample, in the form of a meteorite, from Mercury and Venus," Yap tells Universe Today. "The building blocks of both planets are derived from the innermost solar system ...

The solar system consists of our star, the sun, and everything bound to it by gravity: the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, ...