The planet Mercury may be hot, but it appears to be cooling down. That's the conclusion of a new study that looked for the kinds of features on Mercury that can form as the surfaces of planets ...

Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, has a year only 88 Earth days long. Credit: NASA Mercury spins on its axis very slowly and completes one rotation every 59 Earth days.

THE recent radar measurements of Mercury indicate that the period of rotation of the planet is 59 ± 5 days1. This result is in complete disagreement with the previously quoted value of 88 days ...

EARTH is set to have three unexpectedly shorter than average days in the coming weeks – and it’s taken scientists by surprise ...

As the fastest-moving planet in our solar system, Mercury goes retrograde three to four times a year. ... This is due to the speed of Earth’s rotation and the planet’s distance from us.

But because of its fast orbit, one Mercury year takes 88 Earth days. This means that two years on Mercury lasts for only three days. The planet's sunrise would be unusual to us on Earth. Due to its ...

Mercury revolves around the sun every 88 days and takes 59 days to complete one rotation. Slow rotation coupled with its rapid revolution makes for double sunrises from some parts of the planet.

This is a period when the planet Mercury enters retrograde motion and appears to move backward in the sky — although it isn't actually moving backward. Mercury, like Earth, has an elliptical ...

In the early morning hours of June 3, six planets, including Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Neptune and Saturn will momentarily align on the ecliptic path, however, experts say they will not all ...

Mercury moves super fast around the Sun, finishing its year in just 88 Earth days. The planet has crazy temperature swings, ...

DURING the recent inferior conjunction of the planet Mercury in April, 1965, radar observations were obtained by the Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory in Puerto Rico (operated by Cornell University ...

There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. You may recall that Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 by the ...