Although Mercury is a largely dark planet, its younger features (or more recent scarring) appear brighter on the surface. Scientists aren’t quite sure what Mercury is made of, but material that ...

The photos represent a planet in the grip of extremes ... BepiColombo aims to collect data on Mercury's magnetism, gaseous exosphere, and surface features that could help explain these oddities ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Mercury’s largest impact crater, the Caloris basin, appears in the lower left area of the planet. BepiColombo caught sight of some younger surface features on Mercury, as seen in the brighter ...

Flying over Mercury's north pole gave the ... the images are still scientifically valuable as they show many of the planet’s surface features. This is one of a series of images taken by the ...

They had to be performed close to the surface of Mercury, and that resulted in ... but this new set brings to light lesser-known features of the planet, including from the north pole, the ...

It is not often that all the planets in the Solar System other than ours are lined up across the night sky for us to see.

We'll see six planets in the first part of February – Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and Saturn – and on Feb. 28, they'll be joined by Mercury. But not all of them will be visible to ...