Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Antarctic sea life - including the oldest living creatures on the planet - are at risk from increasing number of ships dropping anchor there, warns a new report.

The pre-dawn sky will feature a glowing crescent moon, joined by planets Mercury, Venus and Saturn.

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

Mercury, though very small, has a magnetic field that creates a protective “bubble” around the planet: the magnetosphere. This field is about 100 times weaker than Earth's but interacts intensely with ...

The secrets of Mercury's strange magnetic bubble are gradually being unlocked by the BepiColombo spacecraft as it makes its rapid flybys of the world.

A pair of still-attached probes just completed the closest flyby of the solar system’s least explored planet, capturing the first clear view of Mercury’s impact craters. BepiColombo pulled off ...

On September 5, 2024, Mercury will reach its greatest elongation from the sun, marking its farthest point in the morning sky. This event, when Mercury is 18 degrees from the sunrise, offers an ...

Mercury, the planet of communication, goes retrograde from August 4th to August 27th. That means almost the entire month of August is in a state of zombie when it comes to communication and ...

The planet Mercury could have a layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers, or 11 miles, thick, tucked below is surface, scientists say.

From its ridiculously large core to the baffling chemical composition of its surface, Mercury is full of surprises – not least the planet's origins ...