The ice rests at Mercury's polar regions within deep craters where the sun never shines. Temperatures within the ice-filled craters never get warmer than approximately -170 °C. Researchers have ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (Nasa) Messenger spacecraft has sent back its first visible-light images of water ice on Mercury, the tiny charbroiled planet that orbits ...

There's ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. A new study says that the Vulcan heat on the planet closest to the sun likely helps make ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Within those shadows, it's thought, sits a layer of ice, preserving clues that could help us better understand Mercury's past and potentially its future. "In the next few weeks, the BepiColombo ...