Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a ...

The ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury yesterday for the sixth time, just 183 miles above the planet's north pole ... A Space Odyssey. LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS?

As it circled it, it snapped these incredible images of one of the Solar System's most mysterious planets ... of looks like a Star Trek starship. We've seen BepiColombo images of Mercury before ...

Mercury is one of the closest planets to Earth. According to NASA, it orbits the sun in less than 90 days. At points of the year, it looks like Mercury is moving backward in its orbit around the sun.

Measurements from MESSENGER's MLA instrument during the spacecraft's greater than four-year orbital mission have mapped the topography of Mercury's northern hemisphere in great detail. Credits ...

When does Mercury go into retrograde? Our planet of the mind and the mouth ... a deceleration that looks like a reversal from our vantage here on beautiful, broken planet Earth.

A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar ... They would look like pure diamonds," he said. Could the diamonds ever be ...