Mercury doesn't give up its secrets easily. The smallest planet in our solar system is also one of the most extreme—a sun-scorched, metal-rich world with a puzzling magnetic field and lavas unlike ...

The long-anticipated BepiColombo mission is entering its decisive phase. Launched in 2018, this joint endeavor between the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, May 7 (Reuters) - New results from NASA's now-defunct Messenger spacecraft show Mercury's magnetic field switched on about 4 billion years ago, scientists said on Thursday.

For decades, scientists believed lithium might be hiding in Mercury’s ultra-thin atmosphere, or exosphere, but every attempt to find it came up empty. Now, in a groundbreaking study, researchers have ...