It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the ...

During the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface of our star. There are 14 transits in this century; the last before this was in 2016, but the next event ...

A Planet in Contraction and Its Battle Scarps While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. However, older observations continue to unveil the ...

Mercury is a little-known, still mysterious world. But one thing is certain. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, can't ...

Mercury is finally back in the spotlight, with a space probe zooming past its cratered surface for the first time in six years. As it flew past Mercury on Friday, the BepiColombo spacecraft ...