The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet closest to our Sun. Nearby volcanic plains and the largest impact cater on Mercury–over 930 miles wide ...

Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo beamed back close-up images of the solar system’s innermost planet, flying through Mercury’s shadow to peer directly onto craters that are permanently hidden ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is full of unsolved mysteries. Using data from NASA’s MESSENGER mission, scientists have uncovered stunning details about its surface, including ray ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once ... get into orbit around the planet in late 2026, and capture even more information.

BepiColombo pulled off its fourth gravity assist of Mercury on Wednesday, approaching the planet’s cratered surface at the closest distance of 102 miles (165 kilometers) at 5:48 p.m. ET.

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research.

Instead, they're flows of salt that trapped volatile compounds deep below Mercury's surface. In geology terms, volatiles are chemicals that readily evaporate on a planet — like water ...

The new study, published recently in the Planetary Science Journal, hints at the possibility of subsurface areas on Mercury that ... this material below the planet’s surface to scientists ...

Mercury is losing heat. As its internal rock and molten metal have gotten cooler, its insides have shrunk. Because of this, wrinkles have appeared on the planet's surface — formations known as ...