It shouldn’t be very easy to find ice on Mercury. It’s true that temperatures on the planet’s night side drop to -280°F (-173°C), but daytime temperatures soar to a hellish 800°F (427°C) or so, and ...

Composite image of the north pole of Mercury. Red are the areas of permanent shadow; yellow delineates radar bright deposits mapped from Earth. Data are plotted on a photomosaic of MESSENGER images.

A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...

Constructed from a quarter century's worth of satellite data, a new map of Antarctic ice velocity by glaciologists from the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the ...