When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: JAXA/ESA The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." When you purchase ...

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in shaping itself than was thought, with volcanoes spewing "mysterious dark ...