Unlike other rocky planets, Mercury’s surface is surprisingly poor in iron despite its disproportionately large iron-nickel core. This anomaly has long puzzled scientists and prompted extensive ...

As planets go, Mercury is a world of extremes – and one that doesn’t always make a great deal of sense. Its iron core is absurdly and inexplicably huge. Despite its searing temperature ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, including its awful space weather ...

Mercury ' s inner core is solid and about the same size as Earth ' s inner core, a new study using observations from NASA's MESSENGER mission has indicated. Mercury is the smallest planet in our ...

A layer of diamonds was found beneath Mercury's surface. This could help scientists understand the planet's unusual magnetic ...

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 ...

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were created closest to the Sun. Made of rocks and metals, they have solid surfaces and a central core of mainly iron. Small in comparison to the gas planets found ...

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), announced today the availability of its serial RapidIO(R)-based ...