Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton said the Grand Slam was not used to baking summer temperatures but "we're absolutely ready for it" as the mercury soared in London ... humidity and the surface ...

Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the ...

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Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system and the one closest to the Sun, has long baffled scientists with its twisted ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

From this close distance, BepiColombo captured images of Mercury’s cratered surface, starting with the planet’s cold, permanently dark night side near the north pole before moving toward its ...

Its approach angle viewed only Mercury’s sunlit eastern hemisphere and imaged 40 to 45 percent of the surface. The rest lay in darkness, though the colossal 3.85-billion-year-old Caloris impact ...

Mercury could have a thick underground layer of diamonds, scientists say. Some of the stones may have found their way to the surface, according to a recent study.