Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful. Reading time 3 minutes Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest ...

As infinitely fascinating as the universe is, it's also inescapably terrifying. So much of the cosmos is unknown and mysterious, which makes it inherently frightening, and even those areas of space ...