NASA is asking for the public's help, but there's a catch. Mercury's surface is seen in exaggerated color in this image provided by NASA. NASA/JHU APL/CIW — -- NASA is asking for the public's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The planet Mercury in colors of blue and gold The smallest planet in our Solar System may be hiding a big secret. Curious bright ...

Forget Pluto, a hidden Mickey Mouse lives on Mercury. A NASA spacecraft has captured a spectacular photo of Mercury craters arranged in a shape that looks just like Disney's iconic cartoon mouse. The ...

For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to be almost completely uniform, dry, barren, and mostly unchanged for the past ...

Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnout case, a small rocky world that cooled quickly and then froze in place. New images of bright, blade-like scars etched into its craters now ...

Mercury's barren surface has led to the planet being labeled as "dead," but signs of geological activity say otherwise. Bright streaks known as "lineae," which can be seen on slopes across the planet, ...

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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 ...

The International Astronomical Union, the final authority on the names of planets and satellites in the solar system since 1919, recently approved 10 new names for craters on the planet Mercury. All ...

The Pleiades (top) and planet Mercury a little more than an hour after sunset yesterday April 26. Credit: Bob King See that little dot down in the trees? That's Mercury. In just a matter of days, it ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research shows bright streaks on Mercury are linked to active volatile loss, revealing the planet is still changing. (CREDIT: ...