Mercury
Mercury is the Perfect Destination for a Solar Sail
Solar sails rely upon pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces. Get the sail closer to the Sun and not…
Perseverance Sees Phobos, Deimos and Mercury Passing in Front of the Sun
NASA's Perseverance rover is busy exploring the Martian surface and collecting samples for eventual return to Earth. But the rover…
Iron Snow Could Explain the Magnetic Fields at Worlds Like Ganymede
Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, features a surprisingly strong magnetic field for its size. Tidal effects from Jupiter continually stretch and…
There Were Glaciers… on Mercury?
I have lost count of how many times I have given public lectures and explained the temperature differences between Mercury…
Mercury is Still Shrinking
Mercury is considered a scorching, barren landscape that would literally melt your face off if you were standing on it…
This Exoplanet is Probably a Solid Ball of Metal
We can't understand nature without understanding its range. That's apparent in exoplanet science and in our theories of planetary formation.…
BepiColumbo Makes its Third Flyby of Mercury, Seeing the Planet's Night Side
ESA's BepiColumbo continues its journey to Mercury by making another flyby ... of Mercury! This is the third of six…
ESA’s Solar Orbiter Spies a Transit of Mercury
Solar Orbiter’s unique vantage point recently allowed researchers to make a crucial observation, of the solar system’s innermost world.
Even Mercury has Geomagnetic Storms
Can other planets have geomagnetic storms, even if their magnetosphere is weak and they don't have an ionosphere like Earth?…
There are Deposits of ice at Mercury's Poles too
Ice was discovered on Mercury's poles thanks to planetary radar.