BERLIN — A spacecraft bound for Mercury has swung by Venus, using Earth’s neighbor to adjust its course on the way to the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet. Launched almost two years ago, ...

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

[Music] are you a sensation seeking planetary traveler well here are some challenging nearby spots you can't pass up there is a runty pockmarked Mercury Sun blasted continually bombarded and ...

Venus and Mercury stand separated by 1.5° in the early-morning sky, visible in the east about half an hour before the Sun rises. The catch is that while bright magnitude –3.9 Venus is readily spotted ...

Planning is under way for unprecedented observations at Venus using two different spacecraft simultaneously - the European Space Agency's Venus Express, now in elliptical polar orbit around the next ...