I know that more than 400 craters of Mercury have been named so far—all of them for artists, writers, poets and creatives of different disciplines, as just those on Mars are named for scientists.

captured a swath of Mercury's northern hemisphere, including part of a wide volcanic plain and part of the Caloris Basin: a rocky plain inside a large impact crater, which, on every other orbit ...

As the spacecraft approached Mercury from its so-called “night side,” the cameras took photos of its south pole and craters becoming increasingly lit by the sun. The new images caused Johannes ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe made a flyby of its ultimate destination on Wednesday, capturing superb images of the planet's crater-covered crust. The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo ...

With temperatures swinging from scorching heat to freezing cold and a surface scarred by craters, understanding Mercury's composition and formation has proved challenging. Further, to actually get ...