BepiColombo Comes Within 200km of Mercury in Latest Flyby
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A view of Mercury captured by ESA/JAXA’s BepiColombo mission during a gravity assistance maneuver on June 23, 2022, shows the…
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Study Changes Our Understanding of Mercury’s Atmosphere
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The abundance of volatiles such as sodium and sulfur in Mercury’s crust cannot be explained by the model of extreme…
Listen to the First-Ever Recorded Sound Emanating From Mercury
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The team of the BepiColombo interplanetary station has published scientific data collected during the first gravity assist maneuver off Mercury….
BepiColombo Snaps First Mercury Images Revealing Fascinating Features
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The BepiColombo probe successfully completed the first gravitational maneuver near its target, flying at a minimum distance of 199 kilometers…
Don’t Miss Rare Conjunction as Jupiter, Saturn and Mercury Form Cosmic Triangle
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Jupiter, Saturn, and Mercury are coming together in a three-planet conjunction for the second time in 2021 but it will…
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Planet Mercury
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Mercury is pretty close to the sun. Moreover, it orbits the sun faster than the rest of the planets of…
Mercury is the Closest Planet to Earth and Every Other World in the Solar System
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Mind=Blown! As revealed by a new calculation, Mercury and not Venus is the closest planet to Earth. But not only…
10 Curiosities About the Historic Black Hole Photographs
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Half a century ago, astronomers first hypothesized that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy….
ESA Publishes Videos of What Solar Orbiter Saw as it Approached the Sun
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Solar Orbiter’s first close approach to the Sun revealed spectacular images, movies, and data, including powerful flares, stunning views across…
NASA Video Shows 22 X-Ray Binary Systems With Confirmed Black Holes
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A new NASA visualization offers a new look at 22 X-Ray binaries in our galaxy and its neighbor, the Large…
Top 10 Mysteries About the Disappearance of the Ancient Maya Civilization
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Hidden beneath the lush green canopy, in the northwestern part of the isthmus of North America, is a lost world…
5 Things You Should Know About the First Quadruple Asteroid System
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Astronomers confirmed the first quadruple asteroid in history – this is Elektra from the Main Belt, which has now acquired…
Spacecraft Films Massive Solar Eruption Jetting Out Millions of Miles Out Into Space
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The Solar Orbiter recorded the birth and evolution of a giant coronal mass ejection on the Sun, which became the…
Astronomers Spot New Alien World Orbiting Proxima Centauri
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The Proxima Centauri system Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, which is a low-mass dwarf of the…
NASA Finds Biggest Near-Earth Trojan Asteroid Ideal For Future Mission
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Trojan asteroids are a natural population of the vicinity of the Lagrange points L4 and L5 of the Sun-planet systems,…
The Only Spacecraft to Visit Uranus flew By the Gas Giant 36 Years Ago
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In our efforts to explore outer space—our solar system, for starters—we are in our infancy. Although we have successfully landed…
10 Greatest Achievements of Cosmonautics in 2021
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There is no doubt that in 2021, we witnessed rapid development in manned spaceflight, caused by the entry of private…
15 Facts About James Webb, Mankind’s Largest Most Complex Space Telescope
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Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In…
Solar Orbiter Snaps Footage of Christmas Comet
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Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonard) Long-period comet C / 2021 A1 (Leonard) was discovered in early January this year by astronomer…
NASA Spacecraft Records Eerie Sound Emitting From Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
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What makes Ganymede so special? Ganymede is of particular interest to scientists. This large moon is even larger than Mercury…
Peculiar Alien World in Outer Space Is Lightest Exoplanet Found to Date
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Astronomers have discovered a new sub-earth with an ultrashort period that ranks among the lightest exoplanets found to date. GJ…
Study Claims Miniature Black Holes Smashed Into Earth and the Moon
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Researchers believe that countless miniature black holes formed shortly after the Big Bang. Traveling through space as the universe expanded,…