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Like an aging apple forming wrinkles as it withers, Mercury’s surface continues to pile over itself as the planet persistently shrinks.

NASA's exploration robots have rumbled around Mars, swooped around Saturn, and flown well beyond the planets, into interstellar space. But the space agency's engineers often direct their machines to peer back at the vivid blue dot in the distance. "During almost every mission we turn around and take a picture back home," NASA's former chief historian, Bill Barry, told Mashable. "There seems to be an irresistible tendency to look back at home." "During almost every mission we turn around and take a picture back home." Indeed, in the cosmic images bel...

Mercury is hard to study: It exerts little gravity, orbits very elliptically and travels close to the sun.But scientists turned the hazardous radiation in Mercury’s vicinity to their benefit by equipping an X-ray spectrometer (XRS) – a detector that relied on X-rays – on NASA’s MESSENGER orbiter (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging), which circled the

Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 11, 2023 - The origin of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is mysterious in many ways. It has a metallic core, like Earth, but its core makes up a much larger fraction of its volume - 85% compared to 15%

With each flyby, the BepiColombo mission gets another boost of energy for its eventual orbital insertion around Mercury.