So maybe YOU have seen the planet Mercury. But most people have not, or at least they have not realized they’ve seen it. In an extremely unscientific email poll of fifteen of my friends and relatives, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Keep an eye to the sky this week for a chance to see a planetary hangout. Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon. The best day to catch ...
Skywatchers across the Northern Hemisphere have caught a fleeting glimpse of Mercury as it made one of its final visible ...
The elusive planet Mercury reaches its furthest point from the sun on Friday (Jan. 12), with this separation allowing skywatchers a chance to spot the tiny planet. The fact that Mercury is the closest ...
View of planet Mercury from space. Space, nebula and planet Mercury. This image elements furnished by NASA. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to Canyonlands National ...
Mercury will retrograde, or appear to be moving backward in the sky, from August 23 through September 15. It's the third of four times Mercury will be moving in retrograde this year. Mercury isn't the ...
David Rothery is Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University. He is co-leader of the European Space Agency's Mercury Surface and Composition Working Group, and a Co-Investigator on MIXS ...