Mercury has made a rare transit, where the planet passes across the face of the Sun as seen from Earth. During the transit, Mercury appeared as a dark silhouetted disc against the bright surface ...

You have to get you timing right to see Mercury because it spends most of its time lost in the Sun’s glare (though it’s no longer the Sun’s nearest neighbor). You also have to see it during ...

Behold the Sun's convulsing surface at a level of ... This is nearer to our star than even the planet Mercury. SolO will see features as small as 70km across, but will sense a much broader swathe ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to spot with the naked eye, thanks to its proximity to the sun. Most of the time, you get only a few minutes to see it before the sun comes up over the horizon ...

Have you ever seen the planet Mercury? Venus, of course ... About 34 light-years from the Sun, Pollux is the closest giant star to our Sun. At 20:05 Universal Time today our satellite will ...