Mercury Mercury got the ultimate sunburn from solar plasma, and that's how we know it has a magnetic field As if there aren’t enough reasons to wear SPF already, you now have one more. By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago Isn’t it ironic that Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, has ice on its poles? This planet knows how to chill. By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago Mercury's diamond covered surface makes it the crown jewel of the solar system All we need is a spaceship and a sifter and we'll be rich! By Cassidy Ward 3 months ago Massive sunburns vaporized Mercury’s magma ocean What is now the atmosphere of Mercury was created by the vaporized ghosts of what was once a vast magma ocean. By Elizabeth Rayne 5 months ago Mercury's atmosphere thickened as we watched. The likely perp? Meteoroids. By Phil Plait 8 months ago BepiColombo's first kiss with Mercury! By Phil Plait 8 months ago Counting boulders on tiny worlds tells us how ancient and fragile they are By Phil Plait 10 months ago Hostile planets like Mercury and Venus might tell us how life, uh, finds a way By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago NASA's STEREO-A observatory crosses paths with a comet, solar wind, and Mercury By Jeff Spry 2 years ago Watch Earth zoom by as a spacecraft passes us on its way (eventually) to Mercury By Phil Plait 2 years ago Load More
Mercury got the ultimate sunburn from solar plasma, and that's how we know it has a magnetic field As if there aren’t enough reasons to wear SPF already, you now have one more. By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago
Isn’t it ironic that Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, has ice on its poles? This planet knows how to chill. By Elizabeth Rayne 2 months ago
Mercury's diamond covered surface makes it the crown jewel of the solar system All we need is a spaceship and a sifter and we'll be rich! By Cassidy Ward 3 months ago
Massive sunburns vaporized Mercury’s magma ocean What is now the atmosphere of Mercury was created by the vaporized ghosts of what was once a vast magma ocean. By Elizabeth Rayne 5 months ago
Mercury's atmosphere thickened as we watched. The likely perp? Meteoroids. By Phil Plait 8 months ago
Counting boulders on tiny worlds tells us how ancient and fragile they are By Phil Plait 10 months ago
Hostile planets like Mercury and Venus might tell us how life, uh, finds a way By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago
NASA's STEREO-A observatory crosses paths with a comet, solar wind, and Mercury By Jeff Spry 2 years ago
Watch Earth zoom by as a spacecraft passes us on its way (eventually) to Mercury By Phil Plait 2 years ago
