Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many surprises. That caricature is now collapsing. New analysis of NASA’s MESSENGER ...

"We calculate that, given the new estimate of the pressure at the mantle-core boundary, and knowing that Mercury is a carbon-rich planet, the carbon-bearing mineral that would form at the interface ...

Mercury, the planet closest to the sun, has a 10-mile-thick mantle of pure diamond, according to NASA. The report, derived from data taken from the NASA MESSENGER probe that orbited the red-hot planet ...

Diamonds aren't the traditional 20th anniversary gift, but we're not going to complain, since these came from a spacecraft that crashed into the surface of Mercury back in 2015. NASA's MESSENGER ...

Diamond DeShields played for the Phoenix Mercury during a challenging time. The Mercury finished the 2022 season with a record of 15-21, and while they made the playoffs, it was not easy. Phoenix ...

A thick layer of diamonds may be hidden hundreds of kilometres below the surface of Mercury, according to an experiment recreating early conditions on the solar system’s smallest planet. We already ...

Beneath the blistering heat and cratered terrain of Mercury, scientists believe a glittering geological marvel could be hiding — a diamond shell as thick as 11 miles encasing its core. In a study ...

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