A Single Asteroid Strike May Have Delivered All of Mercury’s Water, Study Finds

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.
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Mercury is not what we thought it was - then NASA discovered something disturbing

Mercury was once believed to be a dead and lifeless world, but new discoveries revealed by NASA missions have transformed the ...
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Amazing photos 'MESSENGER' Mercury probe took before its death

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...
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Where did Mercury get its water ice? Maybe from a single slow asteroid impact

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...
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Astronomer’s Notebook: Mercury, the elusive innermost planet

The most impressive feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, a vast, multi-ringed crater over 800 miles across, which is ...
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Doomsday at Mercury: NASA craft falls from orbit into planet

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) – The only spacecraft ever to orbit Mercury ended its four-year tour with a crash landing Thursday. NASA’s Messenger plunged from orbit as planned and slammed into the sun’s ...