The original story “ Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

Earth and Mercury are both rocky planets with iron cores, but Mercury’s interior differs from Earth’s in a way that explains why the planet has such a bizarre magnetic field, UCLA planetary physicists ...

Mercury, once thought a simple iron ball, may boast a mile-thick diamond layer beneath its surface. New research suggests ...

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 ...

The smallest planet in our solar system has a massive solid inner core. In its final trip around Mercury before crash-landing in 2015, NASA’s MESSENGER mission zoomed in close to the planet, enabling ...