Observations during two flybys by the Mio spacecraft as part of the BepiColombo International Mercury Exploration Project have revealed that chorus waves occur quite locally in the dawn sector of ...

Later that decade, I helped write the first strategy for the scientific exploration of Mercury to follow that mission. For a variety of reasons, it took another two decades before the second mission ...

Mercury completes a full orbit around the Sun in roughly 88 Earth days, making its year shorter than a single season on our ...

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system and the closest to the Sun, harbors frozen water inside polar craters that ...

Artist’s representation of ESA/JAXA’s BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-rays auroras on the surface of Mercury. BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency ...

Mercury is a land of contrasts. The solar system’s smallest planet boasts the largest core relative to its size. Temperatures at noon can soar as high as 800 degrees Fahrenheit (425 degrees Celsius) — ...

Since Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun among the solar system planets, it is strongly influenced by the solar wind, a high-speed (several hundred km/s) stream of plasma blowing from the Sun.