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 ...

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 ...

From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured stunning close-up images while on its final flyby of the tiny, sunbaked world. The photos represent a ...

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 ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich.–By measuring the charged particles in the planet Mercury’s magnetic field, a University of Michigan sensor enabled the first observations about the surface and atmospheric composition ...