To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

Many of these near-match scenarios had the object zooming through the inner solar system, which prompted the researchers to add the terrestrial planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north ... directly over the planet's north pole. The European Space Agency (ESA) released the ...