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The BepiColombo spacecraft flew past Mercury for the fifth time last week, revealing the planet in mid-infrared light for the first time. The images revealed details of the temperature and composition ...

Mercury’s water ice has always looked like a contradiction. By day, the planet’s surface can soar to about 430 degrees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. bepicolumbo images of mercury From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured ...

A rare volcano in Tanzania, Ol Doinyo Lengai, may hold the key to understanding the enigmatic bright pits known as “hollows” ...

Mercury whips around the Sun faster than any other planet in the solar system, finishing a full orbit in just 88 Earth days.

Two new papers from members of the MESSENGER Science Team provide global-scale maps of Mercury’s surface chemistry that reveal previously unrecognized geochemical terranes large regions that have ...

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research. The ...