but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet," said BepiColombo's Project Scientist at ESA, Geraint Jones, in a statement.

In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission collected information about the planet's magnetic field ..

"September 8 2040 is the next time the five bright planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury) are visible simultaneously." A planetary alignment, also known as a planetary parade ...

Six planets are parading across the sky, appearing as some of the night's brightest stars. A few easy tips can help you identify them.

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...