Mercury

Yesterday brought the tragic news that the famous 1,000-foot radio dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico wil…

Some of you probably wish you could be onboard BepiColombo right now, as the space probe whizzes far away from…

Humans have long known the health dangers of mercury, but that won’t stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)…

The Trump administration has been trying to dismantle Obama-era mercury regulations since October 2018. It based a…

Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, is one of the last places we think about when considering the potential for…

An unlikely culprit is being blamed for elevated mercury levels found in mountain lions living along the California…

Mercury will transit the Sun for the first time since 2016 this coming Monday. It won’t do so again until 2032.

A new analysis has found that Mercury has a solid inner core, just like Earth does. And Mercury’s core is just about…

A team of scientists just demonstrated something that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to…

The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to regulate mercury spewing out of coal-fired power plants, but…

The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a…

Mercury is the best planet, in my humble but well-researched opinion. Sure, it may be small, rocky, and lacking an…

President Donald Trump is down with more mercury in the air if that’ll help the coal industry. According to the…

It turns out we may have Mercury’s orbit wrong. Not by much, but by enough that a future mission can measure it,…

Thawing permafrost is creating major problems for Alaskan communities, and the situation is poised to get worse as…

Placed on Earth, it would stretch from Washington DC to New York to Detroit. Larger than the Grand Canyon, wider and…

You know you’re old as hell when the only way to find out what young people are doing is to have other old people…

Our solar system is rife with geologic activity, from eruptive ice moons to mountainous dwarf planets. Still, Earth…

I really love this new video from Cody’s Lab about flushing liquid mercury down a toilet because it just gets more…

So you missed Mercury transiting the Sun last month and thought you were going to have to wait another three whole…