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.

What's left of Mercury Rocky Mercury may have been a hit-and-run impactor that had much of its outer ... of planets, while others are rich in iron, like the core of a planet. The range of space ...

NASA says with the help of data from the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed the presence of water crystals ...

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.

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 ...