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

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft achieved a monumental milestone on January 8, 2025, with its sixth and final flyby of Mercury. This maneuver brought the spacecraft to just 185 ...

Now BepiColombo is heading back into the solar system before aiming to arrive in orbit around Mercury in November 2026. Then the spacecraft’s main camera will be unshielded and it will take ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is having to delay the arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury after the twin probes suffered a glitch that prevented it from operating at full power.

A recent study suggests Mercury may have a 10-mile-thick layer of diamond deep in its interior. ... 2015, when the spacecraft smashed into Mercury's surface at more than 8,000 miles per hour.

Mercury could have a thick underground layer of diamonds, scientists say. Some of the stones may have found their way to the surface, according to a recent study.

Scientists from China and Belgium used data collected by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft between 2004 and 2015 to inform their theories about the structure of the planet's interior.

Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that the solar system's tiniest planet, Mercury, hides a not-so-tiny secret: a 10-mile-thick mantle of diamond.

IN SPACE: In this handout from NASA, Mercury is seen from the Messenger spacecraft January 14, 2008. Messenger was about 17, 000 miles from the closest planet from the Sun on its first of three ...