After NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment and Geochemistry Ranging (MESSENGER) mission ended in 2015, the crust of the solar system's innermost planet was thought to be roughly 22 miles (35 ...

Mercury is small, fast and close to the sun, making the rocky world challenging to visit. Only one probe has ever orbited the planet and collected enough data to tell scientists about the chemistry ...

As the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in our solar system, but Mercury's crust is also fractured and sheared in several places. There are also ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

New data suggests Mercury's crust may be thinner than originally thought -- and that the core may constitute an even larger percentage of the planetary surface. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Researchers turned to Mercury for the possibility of impact-born diamonds because previous surveys of the planet and molten rock found that the surface may have fragments of graphite, a carbon-rich ...

Data from NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) give scientists an idea on how to mathematically calculate Mercury's crust, which is actually thinner and ...

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New data suggests Mercury's crust may be thinner than originally thought -- and that the core may constitute an even larger percentage of the planetary surface. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...