Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many ...

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A recent theory has emerged suggesting that the answer to Mercury’s unusually large metallic core may lie in the early history of our solar system. This theory proposes that a soft collision between ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from around 787 km, ...

For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to ...