A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

Saturn, always a favorite for viewers with telescopes because of its famous ... The only bright planet that is out of the evening sky loop is Mercury. It starts 2025 rising about 90 minutes ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to spot with the naked eye, thanks to its proximity to the sun. Most of the time, you get only a few minutes to see it before the sun comes up over the horizon ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European Space Agency released the stunning snapshots Thursday, showing the permanently shadowed craters ...

That's something seen only on Venus and Mercury from Earth. From Jan. 11 to Feb. 19, it will be possible to see Venus transform from half-lit to 13% lit, but only if you use a telescope.

The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments, has completed the last milestone before entering Mercury's orbit. This content ...

This cosmic insight comes from one of the first studies of images captured by Nasa's new James Webb Space Telescope. One of its authors, Prof Christopher Conselice from the University of ...

SMACS 0723: Red arcs in the image trace light from galaxies in the very early Universe The first full-colour picture from the new James Webb Space Telescope has been released - and it doesn't ...