What type of impact created Mercury’s giant core and thin crust? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team | Space ...
Twenty years ago, the MESSENGER mission revolutionized our understanding of Mercury. We sat down with project head and former Carnegie Science director Sean Solomon to talk about how the mission came ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. A robotic orbiter just took its first closeup pictures of Mercury's poles, passing ...
The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...
New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...
As an end-member of terrestrial planet formation, Mercury holds unique clues about the original distribution of elements in the earliest stages of solar system development and how planets and ...
This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...
HOUSTON – Early science results from MESSENGER’s flyby of Mercury and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kaguya mission to the moon highlight the 39th annual Lunar and Planetary Science ...
Imaging specialist Andy Saunders, notable for being the person to find astronaut Alan Shepard's lost golf ball on the Moon, has carefully restored images from these earlier missions for a new book, ...
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