Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas unlike ...

Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet. While we have sent two spacecraft to Mercury – Mariner 10 and MESSENGER – ...

BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek of the cratered planet it will begin to orbit in 2026. By Katrina Miller On Thursday, a ...

While Mercury, the wily planet of communication, doesn’t station retrograde until July 17, we’re locked and loaded to experiences a lovely little preview of its hijink as we will feel effects of the ...

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On August 11, 2025, Mercury, our planet of the mind and mouth and the mischief that lives between, ends its retrograde. Mercury will station direct at 3:29 am ET at 4 degrees of Leo. But it ain’t time ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...