The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

The secrets of Mercury's strange magnetic bubble are gradually being unlocked by the BepiColombo spacecraft as it makes its rapid flybys of the world.

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of ...

CAIRO (Jared Collins/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Researchers have discovered two meteorites in the Sahara Desert that they believe may have originated from Mercury. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, ...

Based on my research, which include image composites of two flyby views of Mercury from the MESSENGER spacecraft, I conclude that Mercury has not cooled and shrunken as much as previously thought.

The new book "Gemini and Mercury Remastered" features iconic images from the earliest days of human space exploration ...