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Mercury, Venus, and Mars sit within the same general neighborhood as Earth, yet each has followed a radically different path.

Right: Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Mio of the BepiColombo mission; Left: Earth’s GEOTAIL satellite. The illustration highlights comparative studies of planetary magnetospheres. An international ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing momentum from a launch starting point on Earth. It can take missions ...

(CNN) – It happens only a little more than once a decade. On Monday, avid star watchers will be able to look into a telescope aimed at the night sky and see Mercury pass between the Earth and the Sun.

Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System, has increasingly emerged as a natural laboratory for understanding planetary formation and evolution under extreme conditions. Recent investigations ...

Global paleogeography of the Early Triassic (~250 Ma). Adapted from Ron Blakey, http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/, © 2016 Colorado Plateau Geosystems Inc. Red triangles ...

Meteorites originating from Mars have been discovered on Earth in the past, but none from Mercury. This intrigued planetary scientist Ben Rider-Stokes of The Open University in the UK. His study shows ...

Shortly after midnight eastern time on Friday, a European Space Agency mission will zoom pass Earth on its way to Mercury. Earth's gravity will... European Space Probe To Fly Past Earth On Its Way To ...