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

What happens when a planet melts? Explore Mercury's extreme heat and the mysterious crater that defies conventional science.

This makes her one of a rare group of fewer than 30 women artists whose legacies are etched into our solar systems.

As the spacecraft approached Mercury from its so-called “night side,” the cameras took photos of its south pole and craters becoming increasingly lit by the sun. The new images caused Johannes ...

The earliest of Mercury’s craters were named in 1976, when artists including Vincent van Gogh, Titian and Pierre-Auguste ...

On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 ...

The confusion is understandable since Mercury and Earth's moon share striking similarities, including size and a landscape covered in craters. But there's more to this similarity than meets the eye.

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

such as some polar craters, may hold deposits of ice. Intense changes in temperature from day to night make it impossible for life as we know it to flourish on Mercury. Although it is the closest ...

Prominent circular features are impact craters that post-date the plains. Altimetry data from the MESSENGER Laser Altimeter is superimposed on image data from the Mercury Dual Imaging System.