Recent data from the planet Mercury indicates that water ice is found near its poles. What does this mean for the Moon?

Pictured is Mercury's north polar region, which new observations indicate contains water ice. NASA On Thursday, there was a rare eclipse in science news.

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 ...

Ice, ice, baby! This 68-mile-diameter indented crater, located in the north polar region of Mercury, has been shown to harbor water ice. (AP Photo/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ...

Water ice exists on the planet Mercury, hidden in permanently shadowed craters at the small planet's north pole, NASA says. The Mercury water discovery was made by NASA's Messenger spacecraft ...

Talk about a land of fire and ice. The surface of Mercury is hot enough in some places to melt lead, but it is a winter wonderland at its poles — with perhaps a trillion tonnes of water ice ...

Prior to this analysis, seven craters on Mercury were thought to contain ice on the surface. New findings confirmed past evidence indicating the presence of ice for five such craters, but did not show ...

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A NASA spacecraft studying Mercury has provided compelling support for the long-held hypothesis that the planet harbors abundant water ice and other frozen volatile materials within its ...

A NASA spacecraft now circling Mercury is set to tackle some big mysteries of the scorched, tiny world – including whether or not water ice lurks in its shadowy craters.