Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with ...

Mercury’s high density and large iron content could have been caused by magnetically excited collisions within part of the Sun’s protoplanetary disc, suggests new research from scientists at the ...

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 ...

One of the enduring enigmas of Mercury is why such a small planet, roughly 38 percent of Earth’s diameter, is so dense. Thanks to Mariner 10’s 1974–5 flybys of the innermost world and the orbiting ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. After NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment and Geochemistry Ranging (MESSENGER) mission ...

IT appeared to be so definitely one of the fundamental assumptions of physics that pure mercury has a constant density under given physical conditions that when Brönsted and Hevesy announced that they ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...