Mercury is a planet of extremes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The planet is named after the Roman deity Mercury, the speedy ...

Mercury, the first planet from the Sun - The Forgotten Planet. With the search for life beyond Earth primarily focusing on Mars and the rest of the solar system, it’s easy to forget about the small ...

Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas unlike ...

It was seven years ago when a planetary mission called BepiColombo departed our world. A joint effort of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft recently completed its second flyby of the closest planet to our star. On June 23rd, BepiColombo had an encounter with Mercury, and it managed to snap incredible close-up ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 4 years old. The joint ...

Mercury’s disproportionately massive core may be the result of the Sun’s powerful magnetic influence rather than the consequence of a cataclysmic collision with another body in the ancient past, ...

Mercury, the speedy little planet closest to the sun, is making a special twilight appearance this month as a bright pink dot low in the sky. The show started on Feb. 8 and will continue until Feb. 21 ...

David Rothery is Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University. He is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working Group, and a Co-Investigator on MIXS ...