"What surprised us, at the end, was how effective this type of impact could be in explaining Mercury's unusual structure ...

Mercury pollution in the Amazon is caused by gold mining. Discover how tree core samples identify the concentration and ...

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

The first Mercury retrograde of the year goes from Saturday, March 15 to Monday, April 7. Retrogrades are optical illusions ...

Its radius, the distance from the core's centre to the surface, is 2,440 kilometres. Mercury is about 2.6 times smaller than Earth. How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by ...

Mercury ' s inner core is solid and about the same size as Earth ' s inner core, a new study using observations from NASA's MESSENGER mission has indicated. Mercury is the smallest planet in our ...

The study revealed that the child had suffered from rickets and scurvy and was likely treated using mercury before his death at only 3–4 years old. Mercury is a highly toxic metal that has been ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

He can no longer eat the fish he catches from the lake near his home in Georgia. Mercury from industry has seeped into its waters. At the bottom of the food chain, bacteria here transform this ...