View of planet Mercury from space. Space, nebula and planet Mercury. This image elements furnished by NASA. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to Canyonlands National ...

Mercury, the first planet from the Sun - The Forgotten Planet. With the search for life beyond Earth primarily focusing on Mars and the rest of the solar system, it’s easy to forget about the small ...

If you've never sighted this rocky little world for yourself, you'll never get a better opportunity than right now to see it.

While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.

Mercury is a planet of impossible contradictions. It’s scorching hot, yet we’ve found ice at its poles. It’s small and barren, yet it has a magnetic field and a giant metallic core that defies ...

Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...

Europe's Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing a surface riddled with craters, including one that just received a name. The ...

Diamonds aren't the traditional 20th anniversary gift, but we're not going to complain, since these came from a spacecraft that crashed into the surface of Mercury back in 2015. NASA's MESSENGER ...

Mercury, the speedy little planet closest to the sun, is making a special twilight appearance this month as a bright pink dot low in the sky. The show started on Feb. 8 and will continue until Feb. 21 ...