Six Planets are Visible in The Night Sky during June 2020

Some people say that the beauty of the celestial sky at night cannot be compared with anything else. And we’re not here to contradict them, nor to say that they’re…

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Mercury – A Day And A Year On The First Planet From The Sun

Mercury’s position in our solar system makes this planet the innermost of all. Its name derives from the name of the messenger of the Roman gods. The planet has the…

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BepiColombo Sent An Image With The Earth Seen From 300,000 Miles Away

European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent BepiColombo to Mercury, hoping that it will bring some light on the planet’s formation and presumably icy poles….

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A Spacecraft Uses the Earth’s Gravity to Travel to Mercury

There are so many to learn about Mercury that perhaps a whole lifetime wouldn’t be enough. Being the first planet from the Sun, you would think that on Mercury, things…

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Life on Mercury? Astronomers are Proposing a Stunning New Hypothesis

While humanity has been wondering for centuries if there are aliens living on Mars, or on one of Jupiter’s or Saturn’s moons, it seems like they could exist in a…

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