ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation cou ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a 7-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced ...

The Earth is a little more complicated than the Moon and Mercury due to its thicker atmosphere. The Earth does gain a little mass, as around 40,000 tonnes of material – dust and rock – falls to our ...

Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here's why it matters to scientists.

Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 A new study suggests Mercury might have a thick layer of diamonds deep under its surface. This discovery could help ...

In mid-January, all of the planets are on one side of the sun, except for Mercury, which is still on the other side of the sun. We will be one planet short of a maximum alignment. Six planets will ...

Planetary parade in January: A planetary parade is a colloquial term that applies when four or more planets line up in the night sky at once. Sky watchers will get a good view of some of the planets ...

Following the recent Wolf Moon in a celestial game of peekaboo with Mars, January is shaping up to be a dazzling spectacle for stargazers, with a parade of planets crisscrossing the skies above ...

Mercury will join the other six planets in the night sky on 28 February making a full alignment in the sky. But by this time, Mercury and Saturn will only be visible during twilight in the southen ...

Flying 295 km above Mercury, it photographed icy craters, volcanic plains, and the planet's largest impact crater. Mercury reflects two-thirds less light than Earth's Moon, making its surface appear ...

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