and because saturated pixels bleed light into adjacent pixels, an averaged image of Mercury from the previous day looks like two streaks, rather than an orb. Join our Space Forums to keep talking ...

Scientists have discovered a metal-heavy cannonball of an exoplanet resembling an Earth-size version of Mercury. This newfound world could help shed light on ... might have blown off its own ...

The MERTIS imaging spectrometer, built by DLR and jointly operated with the University of Münster, shows Mercury in a completely new light. The first spacecraft ... Mercury's orbit in November 2026.

ESA/ATG medialab The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft recently made a close flyby of Mercury, and it snapped some stunning pictures along the way. Launched in 2018 along with ...

But in this NASA image – taken by NASA's Messenger space probe around a decade ago – Mercury appears multi-coloured. That's because it's an approximation of the different wavelengths of light ...

These two tails are blown away from ... yellow wavelengths of light, which are given off by the excited sodium particles in the tail. "Without such a filter, Mercury's tail is almost invisible ...