Mercury’s polar ice deposits may have formed in just one Mercurian day after a giant comet or asteroid slammed into the ...

Mercury’s water ice has always looked like a contradiction. By day, the planet’s surface can soar to about 430 degrees ...

Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury hosts water ice at its poles. Now scientists may know how it got there.

The researchers estimated that before humans started pumping mercury into the atmosphere, it contained on average about 580 megagrams of mercury. However, in 2015, independent research that looked at ...

The amount of mercury in our atmosphere is a little out of hand, and scientists may have figured out the cause. According to a new study published in the journal One Earth, the excessive mercury ...

The source of the significant water ice deposits hidden in Mercury's polar regions has been a topic of debate among ...

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This plant (left), found along the slopes of Mount Everest, grows in individual layers (right) that have been used to understand how atmospheric mercury levels have changed in the past 40 years.

In this interview conducted at Pittcon 2024 in San Diego, we spoke to Seth Lyman about atmospheric mercury, exploring innovative measurement techniques, and the environmental impact of mercury ...

Noah Jäggi, Diana Gamborino, Dan J. Bower, Paolo A. Sossi, Aaron S. Wolf, Apurva V. Oza, Audrey Vorburger, André Galli, Peter Wurz MESSENGER observations suggest a magma ocean formed on proto-Mercury, ...