Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re excited to get a ...

The search for water beyond Earth has always been an interesting area for scientists, driven by a simple yet important idea that where there is water, there may be life. The universe is filled with ...

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 ...

Space exploration often feels like a journey with no clear end. Engineers plan for years, and spacecraft travel millions of kilometers while sending back tiny pieces of data that slowly reveal the ...