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Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...
Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet.
Mercury reaches its point of greatest eastern elongation on Friday (July 4), presenting an excellent opportunity to spot the ...
A meteor shower, a planet sighting, and a full moon. Here's how to see all of space's eye-catching activity in July.
Mercury is also the planet of mimicry; it's the way we learn how to communicate and pronounce words at a young age. After several years as a practicing astrologer, ...
To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...
Mercury, our solar system's innermost, unusually iron-rich planet. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington hide caption ...
Mercury will retrograde from Dec. 13 through Jan. 2 in the last of four times it appears to move backward in the sky this year. Every planet has in our solar system has retrograded for at least ...