Over time, cinnabar washed away from rainfall and seeped into the surrounding soil and water. But while a contaminant like ...

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 ...

For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to be almost completely uniform, dry, barren, and mostly unchanged for the past ...

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Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe. The ...

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ATHENS, Ga. — Alligators might be soaking up more than just sun, according to new research findings. A new study from the University of Georgia’s Odum School of Ecology in partnership with the Marine ...