If you’re trying to cheat death on Mercury, this is very promising, but the news gets even better. Mercury's Solar Day is ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

New Africa - stock.adobe.com While Mercury, the wily planet of communication and exchange doesn’t station retrograde until March 15th, we get a lovely little preview of its hijinks for the next ...

The planet will be blazing brightly enough to be easily visible with the naked eye. By contrast, Mercury’s relatively ... some light is refracted through our atmosphere onto the moon’s surface.