A pair of still-attached probes just completed the closest flyby of the solar system’s least explored planet, capturing the first clear view of Mercury’s impact craters. BepiColombo pulled off its ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to confer names on 16 impact craters on Mercury. The newly named craters were imaged during the ...

Extreme temperatures and solar radiation make life on Mercury virtually impossible, but there sure are a lot of creatives who are thriving there—in the form of craters, that is. Ever since NASA’s ...

Enjoy this new video of Mercury, while you treat your ears to an invigorating piece of baroque music. Earlier this month, Mercury took center stage in a recent video montage created from the snapshots ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) — the arbiter of planetary and satellite nomenclature since its inception in 1919 — recently approved a proposal from the MESSENGER Science Team to assign ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three views of Mercury taken by the European BepiColombo mission during its flyby of the planet in June 2023. Europe's ...

Mercury's barren surface has led to the planet being labeled as "dead," but signs of geological activity say otherwise. Bright streaks known as "lineae," which can be seen on slopes across the planet, ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from an ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Three images acquired by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on ...

For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to be almost completely uniform, dry, barren, and mostly unchanged for the past ...