The BepiColombo mission, a joint endeavor by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...

The spacecraft collected new data on Mercury using its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, or MERTIS. The ...

Mercury ' s inner core is solid and about the same size as Earth ' s inner core, a new study using observations from NASA's MESSENGER mission has indicated. Mercury is the smallest planet in our ...

The background image is Mercury Dual Imaging System global mosaic, colored by surface elevation measured by the Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA), both draped over a digital elevation model derived ...

Mercury has long puzzled scientists as it possesses many qualities that aren't common to other solar system planets. These ...

It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the ...

Mercury will be in retrograde until Dec. 15, the last of four times it appears to move backward in the sky this year. For at least a portion of 2024, nearly every planet in our solar system has ...

Much closer to the horizon and a distinct reddish color, the planet Mercury isn’t on most people’s observing lists. In fact, a professional astronomer last year told me it was impossible to ...

Narrator: As the solar system grew, four rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were created closest to the Sun. Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of ...

Mercury – named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods – is the smallest and closest to the Sun of the eight planets in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 88 ...