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 ...

In the crowded, turbulent heart of the Milky Way, scientists have picked out a fragile pattern of atoms that could help ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

An analysis of 100,000 satellite images of Mercury has revealed traces of changes that challenge the image of a "dead" planet.

In the tropics, the border between troposphere and stratosphere—the tropopause—sits at around 20km, far above any normal ...

Learn about the bright streaks that may represent recent geological activity on Mercury, which has been considered a dead ...

Although Mercury was geologically active in its early days, today its surface appears almost completely static. This is why ...

Stricter international limits on sulphur in ship fuel are reducing lightning activity along some of the planet’s busiest ...