Breaking space news, the latest updates ... So, right off the bat, Mercury wasn't given a lot to work with. Second, the outer planets did not form in their present locations.

So far, only two missions have made it to the Swift Planet. A third one, the Japanese and European space ... on Mercury’s birth. Scientists think that perhaps early Mercury’s outer layer ...

the planet's magnetic field, and the enigmatic "hollows" on the surface. Mercury's outer shell is covered in ancient lava flows, pitted by space rocks for the past 4 billion years or so.

Space scientists accomplished ... rocks on the scale of so-called "planet killers" previously hidden within the inner solar system. In orbits between Venus and Mercury, scientists detected the ...

Related stories "Because Mercury is shrinking, you're causing bits of the outer ... Space Agency and one from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, that will be scrutinising the planet's surface ...

Many of these near-match scenarios had the object zooming through the inner solar system, which prompted the researchers to ...

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft launched 20 years ago, on August 2, 2004, and although its mission ended in 2015, MESSENGER's observations of the Sun-scorched planet ... outer layers of Mercury's ...

there’s still so much outer space left to explore, like a myriad of exoplanets in faraway systems. Exoplanets are planets that exist outside of our solar system, and some of them are really wild.