Among the questions it will probe, according to ESA, is whether water ice really exists in the planet's craters and what Mercury's surface is actually made of. Stephanie Pappas is a contributing ...

These dark regions could contain water ice, and investigating ... exposure photograph of Mercury’s north pole, with the spacecraft about 787 kilometers from the planet’s surface.

A planet that may support alien life has been discovered less than 20 light-years from Earth. The "promising" super-Earth - ...

water ice hiding in shadowed craters, and an off-center magnetic field in the planet. There’s still a lot about this curious world that scientists have yet to figure out. Why is Mercury so ...

This image of Mercury's surface was ... U.K. — imaged craters on the planet's vast sunlit northern plains. It also imaged polar craters suspected of hosting ice and whose floors may be in ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

Among the questions it will probe, according to ESA, is whether water ice really exists in the planet's craters and what Mercury's surface is actually made of.

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

Through her latest project, the Before It’s Gone (BIG) Arctic Research Expedition, she has collected snow, ice and water samples from ... them via its Perpetual Planet Initiative.

But the sums don’t add up — given what is known about the amount of water ice that was in the outer Solar System, the accumulation of icy planetesimals would have led to the inner planets ...

Venus in Aries knows what she wants, and she takes it,” says Donna Page, an Atlanta-based astrologer with a graduate degree ...