Mercury is a planet of impossible contradictions. It’s scorching hot, yet we’ve found ice at its poles. It’s small and barren ...

(Left) A colorful view of Mercury produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission (Right) what Mercury may look like were its outer layers stripped to ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though ...

Mercury is a little-known, still mysterious world. But one thing is certain. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, can't actually travel backward in retrograde, and doesn't impact us on Earth. The ...

The solar system’s smallest planet may have vast riches beneath its surface, according to a stunning discovery by a NASA spacecraft. Scientists have determined that Mercury, the closest planet to the ...

Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has a 10-mile-thick mantle of pure diamond, according to NASA. The report, derived from data taken from the NASA MESSENGER probe that orbited the red-hot planet ...

A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...