Latest about Mercury
Would-be moon explorers are eager to learn better tactics for tracking down ice, which they hope to turn into water and rocket fuel — and new research may have found a new key to spotting buried ice.
If there ever was a planet that I feel has gotten a bad rap for its inability to be readily observed, it would have to be Mercury, known in many circles as the "elusive planet."
The 1903 Wright Flyer that made history's first flight was a relatively simple machine with propellers and wire controls.
A solid metallic core nearly as large as Earth's might be lurking deep within the solar system's smallest planet.
Mercury shares its orbit with a ring of wandering dust, and a cloud of as-yet-undiscovered asteroids likely gave rise to a similar ring in Venus' neighborhood, recent research suggests.
Once again, it is time to seek out what has often been called the most difficult of the five brightest naked-eye planets to see: Mercury.
The BepiColombo mission to Mercury that left Earth on Oct. 19 has a long journey ahead of it, but the spacecraft just ticked off an important milestone.
