Mercury has made a rare transit, where the planet passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. During the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface ...

Space exploration often reveals unexpected surprises. In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission collected information about the planet's magnetic field. These observations ...

NASA-supported scientists have developed a method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons, which will ...

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days 1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...

Anyone with any kind of planet-gazing past could tell ... Orbiter (MMO)—will together study Mercury’s origin and evolution, its interior structure, geology, composition and craters, its ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft may have only made rapid flybys of Mercury, but it is already helping to unravel mysteries surrounding the closest planet to the sun. In 2026, a European Space Agency ...

Consequently, as its molten interior cools and contracts ... scientists turn to impact craters on the planet's surface. Given that Mercury experiences frequent planetary impacts, researchers ...

This finding suggests the planet may harbour more secrets than ... Scientists replicated Mercury’s interior conditions on Earth using a large-volume press, applying over seven gigapascals ...