The inner planets Mercury and Venus will both be visible in the east-southeast sky before sunrise on Tuesday, Nov. 25.
There are eight planets in the solar system, and each travels on its own path around the sun. But of these planets, which is nearest to the sun? Mercury is a strange little world. There are some ...
Such events are called conjunctions, and they take place when, from Earth’s perspective, two objects in the sky seem to line ...
As the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in our solar system, but Mercury's crust is also fractured and sheared in several places. There are also ...
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 ...
A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...