Mercury's crust contains far more sulphur than the crust of the Earth or the moon, and its magnetic field is lopsided toward the north, a NASA spacecraft has discovered. "What we are finding is that ...

Don’t shoot the Messenger – it’s already crashed into Mercury. NASA’s Messenger space probe, which has been orbiting the planet for more than four years, ran out of fuel and hit the surface at 3:26:02 ...

Twin probes destined for Mercury were launched on Friday as a part of a joint mission by European and Japanese space agencies. An Ariane 5 rocket lifted the uncrewed spacecraft into orbit from French ...

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has offered a definitive date for the BepiColombo mission’s arrival at Mercury.

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as spacecraft get closer to Mercury, the sun's enormous gravity ...

When NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft mapped Mercury in unprecedented detail, one crater stood out for all the wrong reasons. Its structure, composition, and internal features did not align with ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...