They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Meteorites from Mercury have never been found on Earth. But two pieces discovered in the Sahara desert might be remnants of ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a ...

Gravitational assists are an emblematic example of why space travel is hard —it is exactly rocket science, after all. Gravity ...

New research suggests that Mercury's crust is shifting and twisting in unexpected ways thanks to the force of the Sun.

Rocks found on Earth may have originated from Mercury: a potential breakthrough for astronomers.

The closest world to the Sun has some extreme surface structures, steep hills and cliffs, which have long been suspected to ...

Scientists may have solved alongstanding mystery in the study of Mercury. For the first time, pieces of the Solar System’s ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission captured this beautiful view of Mercury’s rich geological landscape on 23 June 2022 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist manoeuvre. Parts of the ...

And with BepiColombo on the way, scientists are gearing up for a new wave of discoveries. Experiments like Pommier's will be essential for interpreting what the mission finds.