Europe's Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing a surface riddled with craters, including one that just received a name. The ...

Skywatchers across the Northern Hemisphere have caught a fleeting glimpse of Mercury as it made one of its final visible ...

After only 6 months in orbit around Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is sending back information that has revolutionized the way scientists think about the innermost planet. Analyses of new data ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system and the one closest to the Sun, has long baffled scientists with its twisted, fractured surface. Towering cliffs, deep ridges, and sprawling fracture ...

A team of scientists has a new explanation for the planet Mercury’s dark, barely reflective surface. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers suggest that a steady dusting of carbon ...

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research. The ...

(CNN) — Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, is all set for a rendezvous with a spacecraft. The BepiColombo mission will make its first flyby of Mercury around 7:34 p.m. ET on Friday and ...

Photos from a fly-by of Mercury, the least-explored planet in our solar system, show it has a crater-riddled surface that resembles Earth’s Moon. The photos came from BepiColombo, a joint mission ...