"Mercury is difficult to study because it is a small planet that lies between us and the sun. Most of the time, it is hidden ...

For decades, Mercury has been seen as astatic, heavily cratered planet, a relic of early Solar System history. Its surface, ...

NASA's Mercury-orbiting spacecraft, Messenger, is going out with a bang this week, adding a hefty crater to the little planet closest to the sun. The first spacecraft to circle Mercury, Messenger is ...

A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has quietly unsettled planetary science for decades: how does a planet like this ...

Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead ...

Jan. 31 marks the day Ham, a chimpanzee, was launched into sub-orbital space in a Mercury capsule aboard a Redstone rocket to ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

Stargazing in February: Mercury – a planet of extremes - It may look like the Moon, but Mercury has many more secrets, Nigel ...

What type of impact created Mercury’s giant core and thin crust? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the impact processes ...