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 ...

Mercury's surface is extremely hot (red) -- except where it's not, inside permanently shadowed craters at the planet's north pole (blue/purple).

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Mercury is an odd little planet. The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, which have long been suspected to be the effect of the planet’s ...

Mercury will be in the constellation of Aries tonight. It will rise at 6:59 a.m. EDT (1059 GMT) and set at 9:12 p.m. EDT (0112 GMT on April 12), according to In the Sky. Mercury's apparitions, the ...

During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field. This field forms a protective magnetic bubble around Mercury and guards the ...