Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

retrograde refers to when a planet appears to go backward in its orbit as viewed from Earth. Astronomers call this “apparent retrograde motion” because it is an optical illusion. Mercury ...

Elongation is the angular distance between a planet or other solar system body, and the sun as seen from the Earth, according to the night-sky tracking website StarWalk. While Mercury will be ...

However, not all of those celestial bodies survived, and a new analysis of a the meteorite NWA 15915 shows that it likely originated from a world that was similar to Mercury in its composition—but not ...

Usually lost in the sun's glare — so in the daytime sky — from our point of view on Earth, Mercury only occasionally becomes visible just before or after sunset. The latter is the case this ...

Seven planets will align in a rare "parade" on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. Here's tips to get the best viewing possible.

The study revealed that the child had suffered from rickets and scurvy and was likely treated using mercury before his death at only 3–4 years old. Mercury is a highly toxic metal that has been ...

Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, is 2,440 kilometres. Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by ...

He can no longer eat the fish he catches from the lake near his home in Georgia. Mercury from industry has seeped into its waters. At the bottom of the food chain, bacteria here transform this ...