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

Discover which planet is the fastest in the solar system. Learn why Mercury moves at 47 km/s, has the shortest year, and ...

Mercury is a planet of impossible contradictions. It’s scorching hot, yet we’ve found ice at its poles. It’s small and barren ...

(WHTM) – When you look into the night sky, you’ll see planes flying by, stars twinkling, and sometimes you’ll see planets. Mercury has 88 days in a year and is a terrestrial planet. The size of ...

A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly intimate look.

Mercury, typically classified as the Solar System’s innermost planet, is displaying features more commonly associated with comets. On 3, Steven Bellavia captured an image from Surry, Virginia, ...

(WHTM) – Our solar system has eight (was nine) planets and is roughly 4.571 billion years old. The planets in our solar system include Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune ...

With a lot of talk about space recently, have you ever wondered which are the hottest planets in the solar system? You'd think the closer you are to the sun, the hotter they must be. Now that's mostly ...

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

This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is extremely ...