From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface, ESA's BepiColombo transfer probe has captured stunning close-up images while on its final flyby of the tiny, sunbaked world.

Mercury has long puzzled scientists as it possesses many qualities that aren't common to other solar system planets. These ...

Mercury's magnetic field, as observed by the two flybys of the Mariner 10 spacecraft that penetrated the magnetosphere (one of which was a polar pass), had a magnitude of roughly 300 nT at the ...