(Left) A colorful view of Mercury produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission (Right) what Mercury may look like were its outer layers stripped to ...

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"We calculate that, given the new estimate of the pressure at the mantle-core boundary, and knowing that Mercury is a carbon-rich planet, the carbon-bearing mineral that would form at the interface ...

Scientists have made an astonishing discovery about Mercury, the smallest and innermost planet in our solar system: some of its core might be made of diamonds. This revelation comes from a recent ...

Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has a 10-mile-thick mantle of pure diamond, according to NASA. The report, derived from data taken from the NASA MESSENGER probe that orbited the red-hot planet ...

It may be the smallest planet in the solar system but Mercury could be hiding a big secret. A layer of diamond beneath the crust of Mercury could be up to 10 miles (18km) thick, new research suggests.

Scientists have uncovered a potential hidden gem within Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system. Utilising data from Nasa's MESSENGER spacecraft, researchers suggest that beneath Mercury's ...

Diamonds aren't the traditional 20th anniversary gift, but we're not going to complain, since these came from a spacecraft that crashed into the surface of Mercury back in 2015. NASA's MESSENGER ...

Beneath the blistering heat and cratered terrain of Mercury, scientists believe a glittering geological marvel could be hiding — a diamond shell as thick as 11 miles encasing its core. In a study ...

In brief: Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system and has always been a mystery due to its dark surface and high core density. However, astronomers have long known that its surface contains ...