Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...

The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the Sun has a disproportionately large metallic core – accounting for ...

In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

A new study rules out the existence of global oceans of water on Neptune-like planets such as K2-18b, finding their water ...

The French company Vaonis is one of the leading manufacturers of smart telescopes, and the Vespera Pro is their premium model ...

For Astronomy magazine's 15th annual compilation of Star Products, we've once again explored the vast astronomical ...

Lofty clocks, lots of cores, AI horsepower to spare, and a rebuilt GPU: The new Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chip looks like a ...

Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their ...