Researchers found that atmospheric mercury levels have decreased by almost 70% in the last 20 years, mainly because ...

Mercury (Hg) is a naturally occurring element found across the globe, yet it becomes highly toxic as it accumulates up the ...

Scientists have long been intrigued by the search for water beyond Earth, and NASA's 2012 discovery on Mercury has ...

How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by temperatures of around 430°C, hot enough to melt lead. Without a substantial atmosphere to distribute heat away from the areas facing the ...

Scoured by radiation and eroded by solar wind, its atmosphere is a miserable ... 480 kilometers of the planet's surface, making these the closest visuals of Mercury we'll see for a while.

"This makes these unlit craters some of the coldest places in the Solar System, despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun!" the ESA marveled. What's more, these craters could harbor ...

The convention's effectiveness is judged partly on the amount of mercury in the atmosphere. Gaseous elemental mercury is also released from its largest natural reservoir, the soil, which might be ...