Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnout case, a small rocky world that cooled quickly and then froze in ...
The smallest planet in our Solar System may be hiding a big secret. Curious bright streaks on Mercury's surface, doodled on ...
Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...
WASHINGTON — The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider. Some of the ...
Mercury – named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods – is the smallest and closest to the Sun of the eight planets in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 88 Earth days.