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 ...

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 ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

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 ...

During its stay in the Mercury orbit, BepiColombo is to uncover why the planet only has a thin veneer of rocks despite its oversized iron core, which represents 60 per cent of its mass.

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 ...