Space exploration often reveals unexpected surprises. In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission ...

Mercury will begin its retrograde phase this month from Nov. 25 to Dec. 15 and travel from 22 to 6 degrees in Sagittarius.

The truth, however, is way more interesting. It's not exactly rare. That’s because Mercury orbits the sun every 88 days. An inner planet to Earth—so closer to the sun—it completes just over ...

Because Mercury is much closer to the sun than Earth is — Mercury is average ... "We also observed energetic hot ions near the equatorial plane and at low latitude trapped in the magnetosphere ...

Mercury has the shortest and fastest orbit around the Sun and experiences dramatic temperature changes as it rotates. It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet.

The probe will orbit the sun "close enough to pass inside a solar eruption, like a surfer diving under a crashing ocean wave, ...

Studying CMEs as close to the Sun as possible ... as they reach farther distances (e.g., near Earth) is essential for understanding how their complexity evolves. So, what does this and space weather ...