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

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Mercury is an odd little planet. The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, ...

A heavily customized and restored 1949 Mercury cost $300,000 to make, now it's going under the hammer hoping to get that back ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system and the one closest to the Sun, has long baffled scientists with its twisted, fractured surface. Towering cliffs, deep ridges, and sprawling fracture ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

Carlin-style (sediment-hosted, “invisible” gold) and epithermal gold deposits are commonly enriched in mercury (Hg), but the source of this metal is not well-known. In the world, the association of Hg ...

The MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft while in orbit about Mercury observed highly localized, similar to 3-s-long reductions in the dayside ...