Mercury
BepiColombo’s New Images of Mercury are Cool
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft made another flyby of its eventual target, Mercury. This is one of a series of Mercury…
Mercury Could be Housing a Megafortune Worth of Diamonds!
Mercury, the closest planet to our Sun, is also one of the least understood in the Solar System. On the…
The BepiColombo Mission To Mercury is Losing Power
BepiColombo is a joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury. It was launched in 2018 on a complex trajectory to the Solar…
Mercury is the Perfect Destination for a Solar Sail
Solar sails rely upon pressure exerted by sunlight on large surfaces. Get the sail closer to the Sun and not…
There Were Glaciers… on Mercury?
I have lost count of how many times I have given public lectures and explained the temperature differences between Mercury…
The Solar Wind Whistles as it Passes Mercury
The Mercury , part of the BepiColombo International Mercury Exploration Project, has revealed some interesting things about Mercury's magnetosphere.
Mercury is Still Shrinking
Mercury is considered a scorching, barren landscape that would literally melt your face off if you were standing on it…
BepiColumbo Makes its Third Flyby of Mercury, Seeing the Planet's Night Side
ESA's BepiColumbo continues its journey to Mercury by making another flyby ... of Mercury! This is the third of six…
Astronomers Come Closer to Understanding How Mercury Formed
Simulations of the formation of the solar system have been largely successful. They are able to replicate the positions of…
Two “Super Mercury” Exoplanets Found in a Single System
There's a star system out there with three super-Earth planets and two super-Mercuries. Super-Earths are fairly familiar types of exoplanets,…