Mercury, the solar system's tiniest planet and the closest to the sun, has a layer of diamond 10 miles thick, NASA revealed.

“We know there’s a lot of carbon in the form of graphite on the surface of Mercury, but there are very few studies about the inside of the planet,” said Yanhao Lin, a staff scientist at the ...

Mercury has the shortest and fastest orbit around the Sun and experiences dramatic temperature changes as it rotates. It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet.

Mercury has made a rare transit, where the planet passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. During the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface ...

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days 1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...

According to many followers of astrology, part of the reason could be the pesky planet Mercury. The basic belief is that when Mercury is in “retrograde”, things may not go as planned more ...

Space exploration often reveals unexpected surprises. In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission collected information about the planet's magnetic field. These observations ...

Anyone with any kind of planet-gazing past could tell ... Orbiter (MMO)—will together study Mercury’s origin and evolution, its interior structure, geology, composition and craters, its ...

As it flew past Mercury on Friday, the BepiColombo spacecraft snapped the above photo from 1,500 miles (2,418 kilometers) away, about 10 minutes after skimming past the planet. The image shows ...