Small scarps (arrows) on Mercury’s surface are likely very young. ... in Mercury’s icy craters suggests the dark material arrived recently or is being actively sculpted.

With only a few weeks to live, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has been capturing some of the most detailed images we've ever seen of the Solar System's ...

Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System. It is also the smallest, and its orbit is the most eccentric (that is, the least perfectly circular) of the eight planets.[a] ...

New evidence for surface water ice in small-scale cold traps and in three large craters at the north polar region of Mercury from the Mercury Laser Altimeter. Geophysical Research Letters , 2017 ...

It turns out, 'C' is for crater, and not just cookie.An impact basin spotted on Mercury with two smaller craters above it looks remarkably like the sweet treat-loving Cookie Monster muppet of ...

Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, yet still has shadowy secrets. Here's a look a the most enduring mysteries of Mercury, the target of NASA's Messenger mission.

After four years in orbit around Mercury, NASA’s MESSENGER mission is sadly coming to an end. But before it plunges to its doom, mission controllers are taking full advantage of the spacecraft ...

Shrinking planet Mercury is still getting smaller, new research finds The first evidence of Mercury's shrinkage came in 1974 when the Mariner 10 mission transmitted pictures to Earth ...

The new work, done by a small European team, conducted a comprehensive search for graben in images of Mercury taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft, which ended its mission to the planet eight years ago.

A spacecraft has sent back some of the most detailed and breathtaking images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious, shadowy regions of the small planet closest to the Sun ...