Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. 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 ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Plus, the situation doesn’t get any easier once you’re near Mercury. There’s no atmosphere to help a spacecraft slow down like there is at Venus or Mars.

Envirotech Online is offering you the chance to dive into the world of mercury monitoring with free on-demand lectures. These ...

Mercury is a peculiar sphere of rock, as far as planets go. Barely larger than our own Moon, it orbits within a cosmic whisker of our Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million kilometers (36 ...

Despite Mercury being so close to the Sun and having a negligible atmosphere, these locations have been suggested as places where water ice might reside. Bepi took a great picture of Mercury’s ...