New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only ... Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew on ...

Gaze in awe at this moody, first image of Jupiter's swirling north pole: "[I]t looks like nothing we have seen or imagined before," Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research ...

A space-based telescope has captured new images of the sun that showcase one ... erupting from the sun's far side, near its north pole. Sometimes, these storms are directed toward Earth, such ...