and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), aims to study this magnetosphere and explore how Mercury reacts to the ...

and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), aims to study this magnetosphere and explore how Mercury reacts to the extreme space environment near the Sun. At this distance, the interactions ...

Mercury has made a rare transit, where the planet passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. During the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface ...

The truth, however, is way more interesting. It's not exactly rare. That’s because Mercury orbits the sun every 88 days. An inner planet to Earth—so closer to the sun—it completes just over ...

Further, to actually get to Mercury is a mammoth task by itself. Since the planet is so close to the Sun, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to oppose the star’s gravity when near the planet.

Have you ever seen the planet Mercury? Venus, of course ... About 34 light-years from the Sun, Pollux is the closest giant star to our Sun. At 20:05 Universal Time today our satellite will ...