Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...
A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...
Mercury, our smallest planetary neighbor, has very little to call an atmosphere, but it does have a strange weather pattern: morning micro-meteor showers. Recent modeling along with previously ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Well, they ...
TOI-561 b, a rocky exoplanet roughly twice the mass of Earth, orbits its host star at a blistering pace, about forty times ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers for the first time have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system, revealing three layers like a wedding cake ...
A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research. The ...