A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...

Mercury currently appears as a bright "evening star" in the southwestern sky at sunset. Mercury will reach its greatest ...

What type of impact created Mercury’s giant core and thin crust? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the impact processes ...

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NASA’s Mercury-bound Messenger spacecraft dropped into orbit around the tiny, orbitally eccentric planet just a few months ago, and it’s already sent back enough data to notably alter our take on the ...

The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.