The photos represent a planet in the grip of extremes ... BepiColombo aims to collect data on Mercury's magnetism, gaseous exosphere, and surface features that could help explain these oddities ...

It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the ...

“Mercury shows us: Don't discount [planets] close to the sun,” Domingue ... less Mercury has no rain or wind to carve the land, surface features like hollows can only be formed from other ...

The first two weeks of March provide a great opportunity to sight four bright naked-eye planets in the early evening ... landmark to make a sighting of Mercury which will be hovering not far ...