Painters have played a significant but underappreciated role in our exploration of the worlds in our solar system. Scientists tend to specialize in narrow aspects of reality — spectroscopy ...

Here’s how it works. The planet Mercury is a weird one in our solar system. Here's how the giant planets made it so. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie) ...

Art World Mercury Now Has a Crater Named After Ruth Asawa The planet has the most craters of any in the solar system. Mercury, as seen from the exploratory spacecraft Mariner 10, 1974.

Mercury, the smallest and least massive of the solar system's planets, also possesses a magnetosphere. However, its magnetosphere is typically only about 5% the size of Earth's.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Meteorites found in the Sahara Desert might be pieces of Mercury that broke off as the result of a collision when the Solar System was still ...

Mercury, the smallest and least massive of the solar system's planets, also possesses a magnetosphere. However, its magnetosphere is typically only about 5% the size of Earth's.

While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun is breathtaking. The small planet even appears as a black disk silhouetted against the bright solar star that our solar system is centered around.