From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured stunning close-up images while on its final flyby of the tiny, sunbaked world.

Mercury has long puzzled scientists as it possesses many qualities that aren't common to other solar system planets. These ...

Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, ...

The Mercury flyby of the MESSENGER (Mercury surface, space environment, geochemistry and ranging) probe was the first of three braking manoeuvres for the spacecraft, in preparation for its ...