Should You Eat Fish While Pregnant? A New Study Suggests Changing Current Advice
Current advice warns women not to eat fish containing high quantities of mercury. The findings, which combined analysis of over 4,131 expectant women from the…
Mercury News
BepiColombo Spacecraft Makes Second Gravity Assist of Planet Mercury – Captures Spectacular Close-Ups
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer towards Mercury orbit in…
BepiColombo Spacecraft Lines Up for Second Planet Mercury Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on June 23, 2022. ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo…
Analyzing the Abundance of Boulders on the Planet Mercury
Scientists received new information about the conditions on the planet closest to the Sun. An international group of planetary scientists from the United States, Russia,…
What Mercury’s Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun [Video]
Mercury is special. As the closest planet to the Sun, it occupies a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically. The Sun’s magnetic field,…
Hear and Feel BepiColombo Spacecraft’s First Tastes of Mercury Science
The magnetic and particle environment around Mercury was sampled by BepiColombo for the first time during the mission’s close flyby of the planet at 199…
BepiColombo Captures Stunning Mercury Images During Close Gravity Assist Flyby
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has captured its first views of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby last…
Hello Mercury! BepiColombo Spacecraft Captures Image During Gravity Assist Maneuver
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on October 1, 2021, as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist…
Mercury Ahead! Spacecraft Will Swoop by the Planet in Exciting Gravity Assist Maneuver
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury will make the first of six flybys of its destination planet on October 1, 2021, before entering orbit in…
Were Scientists Wrong About the Planet Mercury? Its Big Iron Core May Be Due to Magnetism!
Proximity to the sun’s magnetic field determines a planet’s interior composition, according to new research from the University of Maryland. New research disputes the prevailing…
Top Five Mysteries About the Planet Mercury That BepiColombo Will Solve
Mercury is a desert world which scientists until recently considered quite uninteresting. NASA’s Mariner and MESSENGER missions, however, revealed that there is much more to…
See Last Stunning Snaps of Earth as Spacecraft Completes Flyby on Journey to Mercury
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on April 10, as the spacecraft came less than 12,700 km from Earth’s surface at 06:25 CEST,…
ESA Forced to Go Ahead With BepiColombo Gravity-Assist Flyby Despite Coronavirus Crisis
Controllers at ESA’s mission control center are preparing for a gravity-assist flyby of BepiColombo, the European-Japanese Mercury explorer. The maneuver, which will see the mission…
Surprisingly, Mercury’s 400° C Heat May Help It Make Its Own Ice [Video]
It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an…
2019 Transit of Mercury Across the Sun in Stunning 4K [Video]
Starting around approximately 1200 – 1808 UTC (7:00 am – 1:38 pm ET) November 11, 2019, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory watched as Mercury moved across…
Mercury Transit: Important Details for Observing Stunning Phenomenon
Today, November 11, 2019, we’re in for a rare treat, as the innermost planet, Mercury, passes directly in front of the Sun for a few…
Watch Mercury Glide Across the Sun in Rare Transit
A rare transit of Mercury will take place on Monday, November 11, 2019, when the smallest planet in our Solar System will pass directly between…
The Transit of Mercury – Skywatching Tips and All the Details
It only happens about 13 times a century and won’t happen again until 2032, so don’t miss the transit of Mercury on Monday, November 11!…
