ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

NASA's missions to Mercury have revealed that the closest planet to the Sun is far more complex than its crater-covered ...

Mercury remains one of our solar system's most elusive and difficult planets to study. It's easier to send probes to the icy ...

The planet Mercury is the smallest member of our solar system’s eight planets. However, its small size (4,880 kilometres in ...

BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury and the first to study the planet with two spacecraft.

A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 billion years ago ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is taking the initial big step ...

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as spacecraft get closer to Mercury, the sun's enormous gravity ...

Forget Pluto, a hidden Mickey Mouse lives on Mercury. A NASA spacecraft has captured a spectacular photo of Mercury craters arranged in a shape that looks just like Disney's iconic cartoon mouse. The ...