The mystery of Mercury has been unraveling since 1974, but until now, the planet’s surface remained blurry and unclear. With the first real images captured by the MESSENGER probe, the secrets of ...

Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock that always seems to be in retrograde ruining your life. A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and Japan made its final fly-by over the planet ...

Researchers analyzed over 100 popular skin-lightening or so-called “whitening” products sold on platforms such as Amazon and eBay for mercury. They found that almost half of these cosmetics ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe ...

Europe's Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing an intriguing surface riddled with craters.

It's possible that Mercury once held the ingredients for life. In 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 probe flew by Mercury and observed a cracked, cratered landscape. Now, according to one new theory ...

If Mars is the red planet, Mercury could take the title for 'rainbow planet,' according to new images released by NASA. The pictures were taken by the space probe MESSENGER, short for — Mercury ...