The meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7325 was initially proposed as a possible fragment of Mercury. However, its mineralogy ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

To study Mercury's volcanic past, Pommier's collaborators synthesized Mercury-like glasses—artificial lavas based on MESSENGER data—and analyzed them using high-resolution tools including ...

Both meteorites contain only trace amounts of plagioclase, in contrast to Mercury's surface, which is estimated to contain over 37%. Furthermore, our study suggests that the age of the samples is ...

Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

As summer begins and Cancer season softens the edges of our lives, July arrives with powerful cosmic shifts. This past June, ...

In the 1960s, an unexpected gift from the Air Force led Herb Weiss ’40 to develop an antenna that could track a speeding bullet 1,000 miles above Earth. And a radome Buckminster Fuller had helped ...

Mercury is a mystery. It’s the smallest planet in our solar system, the closest to the Sun, and one of the most extreme. Its ...