If you’re trying to cheat death on Mercury, this is very promising, but the news gets even better. Mercury's Solar Day is ...

How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by temperatures of around 430°C, hot enough to melt lead. Without a substantial atmosphere to distribute heat away from the areas facing the ...

Mercury is a peculiar sphere of rock ... Scoured by radiation and eroded by solar wind, its atmosphere is a miserable film of gas constantly regenerated as meteorites and plasma tear into its ...