Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is a world of blazing heat, freezing nights, and endless mysteries. Recent photos ...

Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet.

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

The First Lady Astronaut Trainees, or Mercury 13, were a group of women pilots qualified to fly in space but excluded because of their gender. The lives of America's first astronauts — a group ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system, is set to inch across the face of the sun in what’s known as a “transit,” and several organizations are planning to broadcast the celestial ...

Scientists have determined that Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, may contain a 10-mile thick mantle layer of diamonds based on data from NASA’s MESSENGER space probe, Space.com reported.

A bright, yellowish spot in the morning sky is actually Mercury making a rare daytime appearance. Here's how to see it at its highest and brightest this week.

Space's Magnetic Music Heard Near Mercury for First Time. Published Oct 17, 2023 at 11:38 AM EDT Updated Oct 20, 2023 at 8:09 AM EDT. By . Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in ...

Only one of the Mercury 13 would go on to fly to space: Wally Funk, who in July of 2021 joined Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.