Scientists have found that Mercury's core, already suspected to occupy a greater fraction of the planet's interior than do the cores of Earth, Venus, or Mars, is even larger than anticipated. They ...
A series of images taken by two satellites flying past Mercury captured multiple "tectonic and volcanic curiosities" as well as an impact crater on the planet. The satellites, jointly named the ...
MESSENGER completed its one-year primary mission on March 17. Since moving into orbit about Mercury a little over one year ago, the spacecraft has captured nearly 100,000 images and returned data that ...
The solar system's innermost planet is far from being the barren husk of rock it's often portrayed as. Scientists recently discovered a "great valley" on the small planet that would make the Grand ...
BRIDGEPORT -- Car fanatics refer to discontinued automobile brands as orphans. And a world-renowned expert on these four-wheeled orphans, Patrick Foster of Milford, said he was not at all pleased to ...
Mercury up close: the image, taken by BepiColombo’s M-CAM2, features a large ‘peak ring basin’ inside a larger crater measuring 210 km across, which is named after the famous Italian composer Antonio ...
Washington, D.C.—On March 17, the tiny MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission to orbit and observe the planet Mercury for one Earth-year. The bounty of surprises from the mission has ...