The elusive planet Mercury reaches its furthest point from the sun on Friday (Jan. 12), with this separation allowing skywatchers a rare chance to spot the tiny planet.

To date, Earth has been the only planet in the Solar System known to demonstrate tectonic activity. Other planets are geologically active, but not much more than that. However, it now looks like ...

The hills of Mercury are alive with earthquakes, according to a study published Monday in Nature Geoscience. The diminutive planet joins Earth as the only other known tectonically active planet in ...

The ESA mission BepiColombo has been on its planned eight-year journey to the innermost planet of the Solar System since October 2018. On board are highly specialised scientific instruments that will ...

New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the planet's surface.

THE planet observed on the mornings of December 7 and 9 by your correspondent “G. F. P.” (NATURE, December 15, p. 151), was probably not Mercury but Jupiter, as these bodies were near together ...

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...