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 ...

Previous maps of Mercury's surface map date back to the mid-1970s. NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft made three flybys of the planet, imaging about 45 percent of its surface.

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

This global view of Mercury is a contrast-enhanced image mosaic, calculated from data from the camera system of NASA's MESSENGER mission, which orbited the planet from 2011 to 2015. The colours ...

MESSENGER settled into Mercury's orbit in 2011. During its four years in orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER revealed some surprising things about our Solar System's innermost planet.

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a piece of Mercury. Until, just maybe, now.

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.