Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Plus, the situation doesn’t get any easier once you’re near Mercury. There’s no atmosphere to help a spacecraft slow down like there is at Venus or Mars.

Despite Mercury being so close to the Sun and having a negligible atmosphere, these locations have been suggested as places where water ice might reside. Bepi took a great picture of Mercury’s ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by temperatures of around 430°C, hot enough to melt lead. Without a substantial atmosphere to distribute heat away from the areas facing the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to ...

atmosphere, magnetosphere and history of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.” Previous missions have visited Mercury, but it remains an enigmatic planet. NASA’s ...

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury ...

Envirotech Online is offering you the chance to dive into the world of mercury monitoring with free on-demand lectures. These ...

"This is because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate the temperature," Vincent said. "Its gravitational force is just too little to hold on to a blanket of air around it, and even if an ...