As the planet warms, more of Earth’s surface is edging toward temperatures that even the healthiest humans cannot endure. A ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, including its awful space weather ...

There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...

But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury, dark equals cold ... ranging from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and behavior. She was previously a ...