Mercury is a planet of extremes. ... culture, society ... Researchers may have identified a new human species that lived around 300,000 years ago in Asia. 6 Jan 2025.

Mercury is an odd little planet. The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, which have long been suspected to be the effect of the planet’s interior ...

Every Planet in the Solar System Is on Display for a Short Time in 'Planet Parade' People who look up at the night sky to the south will be able to see planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and ...

Mercury, Venus and the first-quarter moon — along with the stars Spica and Arcturus — will appear to form a straight line in the evening sky on Sept. 13, 2021.

Mercury’s impact craters, also known as peak ring basins, were created as a result of asteroids or comets smashing into the tiny planet. Many of them, however, were flooded by volcanic lava ...

Six planets are currently gracing our night sky, forming an arc on our celestial dome. From west to east: Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars.

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system. A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close ...