On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 ...

On Sunday 1 December 2024, BepiColombo flew past the planet Mercury for the fifth time, readying itself for entering orbit ...

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All of this said, every single retrograde of Mercury is different, as it always happens in a different zodiac sign, a ...

Explore facts about our solar system's fastest planet. Mercury is slightly larger than our Moon - 15,329 kilometres around its equator. Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, ...

During the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface of our star. There are 14 transits in this century; the last before this was in 2016, but the next event ...

A Planet in Contraction and Its Battle Scarps While missions to explore the moon's surface are numerous, the same cannot be said for Mercury. However, older observations continue to unveil the ...

"You have this huge amount of legacy mercury that is in the deeper subsurface ocean," Ms Médieu said. "This mixes with the surface ocean, where the tuna swim when they feed. "That's why you have ...

Mercury is finally back in the spotlight, with a space probe zooming past its cratered surface for the first time in six years. As it flew past Mercury on Friday, the BepiColombo spacecraft ...