Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, the pictured craters are some of ... to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on the US space shuttles.

A planetary alignment, or a "planet parade" according to the internet, will grace our night sky just after dusk, according to SkyatNightMagazine. We'll see six planets in the first part of February – ...

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.

Related: Mercury stuns in incredibly ... or one can use the help of the planets and do planetary flybys,” adds Johannes Benkhoff, ESA BepiColombo Project Scientist. “We needed nine flybys ...

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

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

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

The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to send a spacecraft to Mercury. This latest round of photos comes via the ...