We've seen BepiColombo images of Mercury before, but this new set brings to light lesser-known features of the planet, including from the north pole, the permanently shadowed craters, and the ...

Fortunately, these flybys are proving invaluable to science. During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field.

With a total volume little more than the Moon, it is the smallest planet in the Solar System and is situated the closest to the Sun. Mercury has no atmosphere to retain heat, meaning that the ...

Now our new paper, published in Nature Geoscience, offers fresh insight. Because Mercury’s interior is shrinking, its surface (crust) has progressively less area to cover.

At this time, Mercury, also the smallest planet in the solar system, will have a magnitude of around -0.5, with the minus prefix indicating a particularly bright object over Earth.

The planet Mercury will cross the face of the sun on Monday in a rare celestrial sight called the Mercury Transit, which occurs about 13 times every century. By Cheryl Chan Published May 09, 2016 ...

Planet's north pole may have the right conditions for 'extreme forms of life', breakthrough study reveals Glaciers of salt hidden in Mercury's craters might be able to support alien life ...

Mercury will retrograde from Dec. 13 through Jan. 2 in the last of four times it appears to move backward in the sky this year. Every planet has in our solar system has retrograded for at least ...

Scientists have known that Mercury is considerably smaller than it once was — it has gotten about 14 kilometers (8.6 miles) slimmer as the planet's insides grew cooler.