Four small rocky planets confirmed orbiting nearby Barnard's star
Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...
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Mercury retrograde begins March 14, coinciding with full moon and eclipse
As the name suggests, retrograde refers to when a planet appears to go backward in its orbit as viewed from Earth.
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See the amazing images of Mercury captured by the BepiColombo mission
taking advantage of the planet’s gravity to adjust its course so it can enter orbit in 2026. On the flyby, the spacecraft passed within just 180 miles of Mercury’s surface, enabling it to ...
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Planet Mercury
Mercury has the shortest and fastest orbit around the Sun and experiences dramatic temperature changes as it rotates. It is a world of extremes. Explore facts about our solar system's fastest ...
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Our solar system's space traffic revealed: Infographic plots every active spacecraft between the sun and interstellar space
Website Outer Places have created a graphic showing the location of all active probes in the solar system These range from Nasa's Messenger spacecraft, currently in orbit around Mercury ...
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You’ll be able to see Mercury, Saturn together in the night sky next week
Both planets orbit in two separate halves of the solar system, with four rocky planets between the sun and the asteroid belt (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars), and four gas giants make up the ...
Exact time to see planet parade as Mercury joins rare event that won't be seen again until 2040
Dr Greg Brown, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, told PA Media: "Mercury, Neptune and Saturn are all very ...
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The Space Race
October 11-12: After extensive redesign work, Apollo 7, commanded by Wally Schirra (the only astronaut to command Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions) enters earth orbit in the first test of the ...