Using data from NASA's Messenger spacecraft, researchers have determined that a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds may lie beneath Mercury's crust. This finding could explain several long-standing ...

Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick diamond mantle may lie beneath ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

Additionally, studies of Mercury's crust and lithosphere have utilized high-resolution gravity and topography data from the MESSENGER mission. By analyzing the relationship between gravity and ...