BepiColombo completed its fifth flyby of Mercury. During this encounter, it became the first spacecraft to observe Mercury in ...

This makes her one of a rare group of fewer than 30 women artists whose legacies are etched into our solar systems.

The spacecraft collected new data on Mercury using its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, or MERTIS. The ...

The earliest of Mercury’s craters were named in 1976, when artists including Vincent van Gogh, Titian and Pierre-Auguste ...

Extreme temperatures and solar radiation make life on Mercury virtually impossible, but there sure are a lot of creatives who are thriving there—in the form of craters, that is. Ever since NASA ...

The BepiColombo mission, a joint endeavor by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...

What happens when a planet melts? Explore Mercury's extreme heat and the mysterious crater that defies conventional science.

The confusion is understandable since Mercury and Earth's moon share striking similarities, including size and a landscape covered in craters. But there's more to this similarity than meets the eye.

But despite the intense heat the planet faces as it rotates, areas that are permanently shaded, such as some polar craters, may hold deposits of ice. Intense changes in temperature from day to night ...

There are lumps and bumps on our moon There are lumps and bumps on our moon In the sky at night In the soft starlight There are lumps and bumps on our moon There are ridges and craters on Mercury ...

Here's Mercury. The white spot is a 50-mile wide crater called Debussy. These bright rays consist of ejected material and secondary craters that radiate from Debussy. Mercury's horizon.

A new study in Nature Geoscience has determined that the craters on Mercury and the craters on the Moon 's South Pole are spatially similar. Researchers compared the shadows of the craters in both ...