Mercury, Not Venus, Is the Closest Planet to Earth
A team of scientists just demonstrated something that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to…
Trump’s EPA Wants to Prove That Limiting Toxic Mercury Emissions Is a Giant Waste of Money
The Environmental Protection Agency will continue to regulate mercury spewing out of coal-fired power plants, but it’s…
BepiColombo Spacecraft Snaps Its First Selfie From Space on Its Way to Mercury
The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a…
Launching Tonight: A Mission to the Best Planet (Mercury)
Mercury is the best planet, in my humble but well-researched opinion. Sure, it may be small, rocky, and lacking an…
Trump's Plan to Scrap Mercury Regulations Won't Save Coal But It Will Cost Lives
President Donald Trump is down with more mercury in the air if that’ll help the coal industry. According to the…
We Might Be a Tiny Bit Wrong About Mercury's Orbit
It turns out we may have Mercury’s orbit wrong. Not by much, but by enough that a future mission can measure it, test…
Permafrost Soils Contain 'Extraordinary' Levels of Mercury
Thawing permafrost is creating major problems for Alaskan communities, and the situation is poised to get worse as…
Scientists Discovered a Mind-Boggling Chasm on Mercury
Placed on Earth, it would stretch from Washington DC to New York to Detroit. Larger than the Grand Canyon, wider and…
Flipping a Water Bottle Filled with Mercury in Slow Motion Is What's Cool Now
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…
We Just Found Out That Mercury Is Geologically Active
Our solar system is rife with geologic activity, from eruptive ice moons to mountainous dwarf planets. Still, Earth…
Flushing Liquid Mercury Down a Toilet Is Spectacular
I really love this new video from Cody’s Lab about flushing liquid mercury down a toilet because it just gets more and…
Here's the Glorious 4K Footage of Last Month's Mercury Transit We've Been Waiting For
So you missed Mercury transiting the Sun last month and thought you were going to have to wait another three whole…
This Liquid Metal Watch Looks Like It Was Designed by a Terminator
There are a lot of good reasons to believe this watch that uses flowing liquid mercury to show the time is fake. A low-q…
Watch NASA's Beautiful Mercury Transit Time Lapse
If you tried to to watch Mercury crossing in front of the Sun yesterday, chances are you didn’t get as good a view as…
Watch Live as Mercury Crosses the Sun
It’s been a decade since the last rare but beautiful sighting of Mercury crossing the sun appeared. Today, the event is…
Hey, Stargazers: Mercury Will Pass in Front of the Sun Monday
Get ready for a rare astronomical event: Mercury will transit the Sun on Monday, in a spectacle that happens only…
This Map of Mercury Is Perfect for Interplanetary Roadtrip Planning
The USGS has released this new, incredibly detailed map of Mercury. It’s the first time the features on the surface of…
Keep Track of Every Mission Throughout The Solar System With This Handy Map
There’s been dozens of probes that have gone out exploring the solar system since 1959's Luna 2 probe. PopChartLab has…
We Finally Know Why Mercury Is So Dark
Something about the planet Mercury doesn’t sit right with astronomers: It’s too dark. Darker than the Moon, despite…
In the Maxwell Test Chamber, Nobody Can Hear This Satellite Scream
If this satellite looks a little lonely, that’s because it is. It’s positioned inside the European Space Agency’s Maxwel…