WASHINGTON – Earth's first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in shaping itself than was thought, with volcanoes spewing "mysterious dark ...

WASHINGTON — Earth’s first nearly full look at Mercury reveals that the tiny lifeless planet took a far greater role in shaping itself than was thought, with volcanoes spewing “mysterious ...

NASA's Messenger spacecraft has given scientists their best view ever of Mercury, the nearest planet to the Sun. ... Use these social-bookmarking links to share Mercury shines in blue and gold.

By contrast, Mercury, the closest planet in our solar system to the sun, is 29 million miles away from the sun at its closest. In 2007, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope measured the infrared light ...

The planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five brightest naked-eye planets to see. Because it's the planet closest to the Sun, it never strays too far from the Sun's vicinity ...

Using colorized topography, Mercury’s “great valley” (dark blue) and Rembrandt impact basin (purple, upper right) are revealed in this high-resolution digital elevation model merged with an ...

MERCURY, the tiny planet closest to the sun, has long remained a mystery. But it’s hoped a new British-built spacecraft will change all of that, as it prepares to blast off later this month s… ...

NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, which flew by the planet in 2008 and 2009 and entered Mercury’s orbit in 2011, solved the mystery by mapping the remaining 55% of the planet that Mariner 10 missed.