MrSpherical. Is Mercury NOT a Planet? Posted: June 1, 2025 | Last updated: June 7, 2025. Mercury starts to panic after Venus calls him “tiny”… is he really just a big asteroid?

Mercury has closer encounters with the Sun than any other planet in the solar system. It seems that such a planet would be doomed to turn into another Arrakis, especially after billions of years ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section D, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Mercury’s Rising: On Planet Nearest The Sun, Prospects For Life Heat Up.

During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field. This field forms a protective magnetic bubble around Mercury and guards the ...

Mercury retroshade refers to the two-week period immediately preceding retrograde and the two weeks following it. Look alive, folks!

After detecting evidence of recent slip events on the rocky planet’s large faults, Watters believes Mercury might boast stronger earthquakes than the magnitude-5 events found on our moon.

BepiColombo didn't get a good look at Mercury until it had already zipped past and the planet's sunny side came into view. The closest image in this sequence is about 620 miles (1,000 km) from ...

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 ...

The view of Mercury in the predawn sky in June 2015 is not much better in the Southern Hemisphere. (Image credit: Starry Night Software) The tilt of the ecliptic would indicate that this current ...

A five-planet alignment of Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars will be visible in the night sky on Tuesday, March 28. The large planetary alignment can be spotted March 28, 2023.

Mercury has shrunk by7 km. Most of this happened long ago, but now we have evidence that it continues. Mercury: shrinking planet is still getting smaller – new research ...