The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

The Planet That Influences the Sun?! Jupiter is not just the largest planet in our Solar System, but also one of its most ...

A spacecraft has taken some of the best close-up pictures of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer came as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury's night side before passing ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

A planet-size object that possibly once visited the solar system may have permanently changed our cosmic neighborhood by warping the orbits of the four outer planets, a new study suggests.

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

Evenings in February 2025 present us with a striking lineup of bright planets, and chances to attain sightings of all the planets of our solar system before the month’s end. Of the stars, only the Dog ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ... could reshape our understanding of the Earth-Moon system and the broader solar system.

However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming online that could prove once and for all that there really is a ninth planet in our Solar System. The same year that Pluto was ignominiously ...