Mercury

Astronomy Events

Rare Astronomical Events: Transit of Mercury on May 9

May 6, 2016 | Editors 1

A rare and amazing astronomical event is set to take place Monday, May 9th. Mercury, the smallest planet in the solar system, will pass directly between the Sun and Earth, and thus it will partially eclipse the sun. This event is called the transit of Mercury and it is the biggest and rarest astronomical events of 2016 — only happens 14 times in 100 years. Read More

Earth News

Early Earth Ate A Mercury-Like Planet Thus Allowing Life To Flourish

April 17, 2015 | Editors

The ‘young’ Earth may have swallowed a Mercury-like planet billions of years ago, a collision which providing our planet’s layers and generate Earth’s magnetic field creating the perfect conditions required for life to flourish. Read More

Celestial Object Solar System

Tiny Mercury Had Huge Volcanic Eruptions Lasted Billions of Years

September 1, 2014 | Editors

Mercury is the last of the classical planets, the planets known to the astronomers of Egypt and Greece and Rome and the Far East. It’s an object that has captivated the imagination and the attention of astronomers for millennia. Read More

Astronomy Guide Celestial Object Solar System

Mercury was Born from Hit-and-Run Interplanetary Collisions

July 11, 2014 | Editors

Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are known as the rocky planets, in contrast the Solar System’s gas giants-Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, writes Time. Yet Mercury doesn’t quite fit with the other rocky worlds, Erik Asphaug, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University, said in a statement. Read More

Astronomy Guide Celestial Object

Space Facts Mercury

April 23, 2014 | Editors 2

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun and due to its proximity it is not easily seen except during twilight. For every two orbits of the Sun, Mercury completes three rotations about its axis and up until 1965 it was thought that the same side of Mercury constantly faced the Sun. Read More

Solar System Space News

NASA Noticed Something Strange On The Surface Of Mercury. Scientists Hypothesis Is Surprising

February 4, 2014 | Editors 2

A spacecraft sent by NASA to explore the planet Mercury made a discovery which astronomers not expected. Messenger spacecraft mapped for the first time the entire surface of the planet Mercury including areas that had not been seen before. Read More