This region also features “wrinkle ridges” caused by the cooling and contraction of Mercury’s interior. These features provide a unique glimpse into the planet’s thermal evolution ...

To investigate this possibility, scientists recreated Mercury's interior conditions in laboratories ... simulating the extreme environment deep within the planet. The team believes the diamond ...

Mercury’s wrinkle-like features across the left half of the image likely formed after those lava plains solidified and the planet’s interior cooled and contracted, according to an ESA statement.

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye ...

A person shines a flashlight into the night sky on Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) Social media has been abuzz about the ongoing alignment of planets, with ...

M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury's north pole at 07:07 CET, when the spacecraft was about 787 km from the planet’s surface. The spacecraft’s closest approach of 295 km ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each planet takes a different length of time to orbit the sun: Venus, for instance, completes one orbit in 225 days, while Mercury zips around the star in 88 days and Saturn takes 29.4 years to ...