A colorful view of Mercury produced using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER's primary mission. These colors are not what Mercury would look like to the human eye ...

Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

At this time, Mercury, also the smallest planet in the solar system, will have a magnitude of around -0.5, with the minus prefix indicating a particularly bright object over Earth.

Mercury will retrograde from Dec. 13 through Jan. 2 in the last of four times it appears to move backward in the sky this year. Every planet has in our solar system has retrograded for at least ...

Mercury will be in retrograde until Dec. 15, the last of four times it appears to move backward in the sky this year. For at least a portion of 2024, nearly every planet in our solar system has ...

The planet Mercury could have a layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers, or 11 miles, thick, tucked below is surface, scientists say. A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could ...

Shrinking planet Mercury is still getting smaller, new research finds The first evidence of Mercury's shrinkage came in 1974 when the Mariner 10 mission transmitted pictures to Earth By David Rothery ...