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The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

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