MESSENGER images of Planet Mercury. Why craters are flat and Mercury's past volcanism. Torpedo-shaped bats draw attention after Yankees hit team-record 9 homers in rout of Brewers Statham’s 'A ...

The ice rests at Mercury's polar regions within deep craters where the sun never shines. Temperatures within the ice-filled craters never get warmer than approximately -170 °C. Researchers have ...

Taken during a three-hour span before and after the spacecraft's closest approach to Mercury, the photos offer detailed new glimpses of the barren planet. One shows the bright Kuiper crater just ...

such as some polar craters, may hold deposits of ice. Intense changes in temperature from day to night make it impossible for life as we know it to flourish on Mercury. Although it is the closest ...

There are lumps and bumps on our moon There are lumps and bumps on our moon In the sky at night In the soft starlight There are lumps and bumps on our moon There are ridges and craters on Mercury ...

A study in Nature Geoscience recently discovered that the craters on the Moon and the craters on Mercury are spatially similar making it likely that there's millions of tons of ice to be found on ...