During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field. This field forms a protective magnetic bubble around Mercury and guards the ...

“It appears that Mercury may well be a painted planet.” The research was supported by NASA’s Planetary Geology and Geophysics program (NNX13AB75G) and the NASA Earth and Space Science ...

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 ...

MESSENGER settled into Mercury's orbit in 2011. During its four years in orbit around Mercury, MESSENGER revealed some surprising things about our Solar System's innermost planet.

Conversely, when the planet is to the west of the sun, Mercury rises and sets before the star, and this is its morning apparition phase. Mercury as it will appear in the morning sky in January 2024.