Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is a world of blazing heat, freezing nights, and endless mysteries. Recent photos ...

Until we visit Mercury and bring back material, it will be extremely difficult to assess a meteorite-planet link. The ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Scientists have observed whether the meteorites can reach Earth from Mercury. Over thousands of meteorites from Mars and the ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a piece of Mercury. Until, just maybe, now.

Until we visit Mercury and bring back material, it will be extremely difficult to assess a meteorite-planet link. The BepiColombo space mission , by the European and Japanese space agencies, is now in ...

Search-coil magnetometers are of common use in space physics thanks to their simplicity, robustness and ability to measure weak magnetic fields: their sensitivity can reach a few tens of fT/¿Hz in the ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.