A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...
Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas unlike ...
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...
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It was seven years ago when a planetary mission called BepiColombo departed our world. A joint effort of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the ...
Mercury's mysterious makeup may be the result of a grazing "hit and run" collision between two similar-sized protoplanets in the early solar system, a new study suggests. Mercury, the smallest and ...
Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers ...
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...