Mercury has no atmosphere and only a tenuous and constantly recycled exosphere 4,5. This leads to the heavy space weathering of Mercury's surface, which is one of the processes supplying new atoms ...

Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, is 2,440 kilometres. Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by ...

A research team, led by Professor Sung-Deuk Choi from the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering at ...

If you’re trying to cheat death on Mercury, this is very promising, but the news gets even better. Mercury's Solar Day is Even Longer If the Earth rotates on its axis once every 23 hours, 56 minutes, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The amount of mercury in our atmosphere is a little out of hand, and scientists may ...

Since the atmosphere-less Mercury has no rain or wind to carve the land, surface features like hollows can only be formed from other processes—such as the ground leaking volatiles into space.

MESSENGER last year revealed another side of Mercury, color-enhanced to show the differences in surface geology. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of ...

Planets' temperatures are largely influenced by their structural characteristics and proximity to the Sun, however, Venus ...

Recent observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at two mid-infrared bands (12.8 and 15 µm), suggest that the exoplanet could either be bare, airless rock like Mercury or shrouded by ...

Permafrost covers about 25% of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere, crucial in locking away carbon and toxic metals like mercury.