Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

As the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is exposed to the star's enormous gravitational field. And it's really stressful.

Until we visit Mercury and bring back material, it will be extremely difficult to assess a meteorite-planet link. The ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is a world of blazing heat, freezing nights, and endless mysteries. Recent photos ...

The surface of Mercury as seen by BepiColombo’s M-CAM2 (ESA/BepiColombo/MTM) If meteorites from Mercury were discovered, they could help resolve a variety of long-standing scientific questions.

Meteorites from Mercury have never been found on Earth. But two pieces discovered in the Sahara desert might be remnants of ...

Despite being covered in impact craters that could potentially send pieces of the planet into space, we have never found a piece of Mercury. Until, just maybe, now.

Rocks found on Earth may have originated from Mercury: a potential breakthrough for astronomers.

A couple of meteorite samples currently being investigated could be the first pieces of Mercury on Earth. Ben Rider-Stokes, a ...

Until we visit Mercury and bring back material, it will be extremely difficult to assess a meteorite-planet link. The BepiColombo space mission , by the European and Japanese space agencies, is now in ...