Nobody?s ever seen Mercury in such detail, or color. The first images of the planet in 30 years provide rich close-ups of ridges, cliffs and compound crater formations, all in high-resolution color.

Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...

View of planet Mercury from space. Space, nebula and planet Mercury. This image elements furnished by NASA. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to Canyonlands National ...

Mercury is a planet of extremes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The planet is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the speedy ...

Far smaller and closer to the Sun than it should be, Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission arriving in 2026 might ...

NASA's Messenger spacecraft will make history Thursday when it becomes the first probe to orbit the planet Mercury. But it also promises to help solve a host of mysteries about the solar system's ...