Mercury

A view of Earth from BepiColombo as it swung by our home planet on 10 April, 2020 on its way to Mercury. Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Watch Earth zoom by as a spacecraft passes us on its way (eventually) to Mercury
Phil Plait
Apr 13, 2020
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Did brutally-hot, barren Mercury once hold the ingredients to support life?
Jeff Spry
Mar 27, 2020
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Watch a rare transit of Mercury across the Sun on Monday
Phil Plait
Nov 8, 2019
A composite image shows the entire transit of Mercury from 9 May 2016, as seen by NASA’s space-based Solar Dynamics Observatory. Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO/Genna Duberstein
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Why do some impact craters have rays?
Phil Plait
Jan 7, 2019
A mosaic of Mercury taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft in 2008, showing impact craters with tremendously long ray systems. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Finally, a mission to Mercury is now taking off
Elizabeth Rayne
Oct 22, 2018
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Star Stuff: What did Mercury ever do to you?
Summer Ash
Dec 7, 2017
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Take a spin around this incredible new USGS topographical map of Mercury
Jeff Spry
May 10, 2016
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Watch Mercury make a rare morning transit of the sun
Jeff Spry
May 9, 2016
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Marvel at MESSENGER'S final Mercury images before its fatal plunge
Jeff Spry
Apr 30, 2015
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This just in: NASA announces they've found water on Mercury!
Matthew Jackson
Jan 14, 2013
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