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NASA's MESSENGER mission has revealed that Mercury, the solar system's tiniest planet and the closest to the sun, hides a big secret. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
An excess of carbon on the planet means that Mercury is starkly drab and gray on the surface. But new research suggests that underneath, the tiny world harbors a glittering interior fit to be the ...
A layer of diamonds up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) thick could be tucked below the surface of Mercury, the solar system's smallest planet and the closest to the sun, according to new research. The ...
The diamonds might have formed soon after Mercury itself coalesced into a planet about 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of dust and gas, in the crucible of a high-pressure, high-temperature ...
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