Mercury is an odd little planet. The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, ...

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

Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...

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Mercury; Mercury's Odd Surface Features Mapped by NASA Spacecraft. News. By Nola Taylor Tillman published 16 March 2015 When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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

As on most other rocky planets, the water on Mercury probably came from asteroids that crash-landed onto the surface. This water hides in Mercury’s craters, untampered with since primordial times.

Mercury may have a 'potentially habitable' region below its surface, salty glaciers suggest Mercury reaches its highest point in the sky this weekend. Here's how to see it.

The BepiColombo orbiter completed its third of six planned Mercury flybys, hugging the planet from 150 miles above ground and overcoming the powerful gravitational pull of the sun.

A rare type of meteorite found on Earth may have been a critical ingredient in the geologic recipe that shaped the surface of Mercury, new research shows. New experiments on a type of meteorite ...