Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnout case, a small rocky world that cooled quickly and then froze in ...

For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to ...

Nobody?s ever seen Mercury in such detail, or color. The first images of the planet in 30 years provide rich close-ups of ridges, cliffs and compound crater formations, all in high-resolution color.

Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...

Far smaller and closer to the Sun than it should be, Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might ...

Mercury is a cold and desolate planet that appears to have little surface, no sign of water, and little atmosphere that can be observed. Wikimedia Commons A European-Japanese space mission will reach ...