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NASA Discovers Impossible Dust Ring Deep In Our Solar System

NASA Discovers Impossible Dust Ring Deep In Our Solar System

A study based on NASA research and published in The Astrophysical Journal reveals a cosmic dust ring in Mercury’s orbit. The ring is approximately 15 million kilometers wide (9.3 million miles) and — although unknown until now — has likely been present for billions of years. Unlike Venus and Earth, scientists previously believed that Mercury […]

5y ago

The BepiColombo Mission To Mercury Launches Tonight — Here’s Where To Watch It Live

The BepiColombo Mission To Mercury Launches Tonight — Here’s Where To Watch It Live

For the first time in more than 14 years, a spacecraft is headed toward Mercury — the smallest and innermost planet of our solar system. Known as BepiColombo, the spacecraft’s mission is to unravel the secrets of this enigmatic planet and to find out all that it can about Mercury’s atmosphere, magnetic field, and geology. […]

6y ago

A New Study Has Concluded That Planets Like Mercury With A Rich Iron Core Are Probably Quite Rare

A New Study Has Concluded That Planets Like Mercury With A Rich Iron Core Are Probably Quite Rare

For a long time, the planet Mercury remained an enigma to scientists, as it is a planet that is known for its extremes, and now a new study has concluded that planets like Mercury, that are both dense and extremely iron-rich, are probably quite rare. According to Phys.org, when it comes to extremes, there aren’t […]

6y ago

A New Study Has Suggested Putting A Robot Lander On Mercury, Which May Be Feasible Now With New Technology

A New Study Has Suggested Putting A Robot Lander On Mercury, Which May Be Feasible Now With New Technology

Since the conclusion of NASA’s Messenger mission in 2015, scientists have been working hard to analyze its data and plan for the next stage of exploration on Mercury, and a new study has concluded that it may be feasible to put a robot lander on the planet now with modern technology. As the Inquisitr has […]

6y ago

Engineers Are Busy Conducting Simulations Ahead Of The BepiColombo Mission To Mercury This Fall

Engineers Are Busy Conducting Simulations Ahead Of The BepiColombo Mission To Mercury This Fall

Sometime between October 5 and November 29, the BepiColombo mission will launch a spacecraft to Mercury, and engineers are now busy preparing for this seven-year journey by conducting simulations to ensure that the launch and trip go according to plan. With so many variables to consider and things that could go disastrously wrong, it is […]

6y ago

Gigantic 3.4-Mile Alien ‘Doorway’ To Underground UFO Base On Mercury: NASA Rarely Talks About This Planet Because They Don’t Want You To See ET Structures On It, Alien Hunters Say

Gigantic 3.4-Mile Alien ‘Doorway’ To Underground UFO Base On Mercury: NASA Rarely Talks About This Planet Because They Don’t Want You To See ET Structures On It, Alien Hunters Say

UFO conspiracy theorists have announced a spectacular space anomaly “discovery.” A gigantic 3.4 mile doorway, allegedly an entrance to a massive underground alien UFO base was spotted on planet Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun in our solar system. Alien hunters claim that massive artificial structures on Mercury that provide undeniable evidence of the […]

8y ago

Pluto, Jupiter’s Europa And Mercury: Alien Life On These Incredibly Mysterious Planets?

Pluto, Jupiter’s Europa And Mercury: Alien Life On These Incredibly Mysterious Planets?

Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto are three planets that have puzzled astronomers and alien life hunters for decades. And this is because there has been little information gathered about them, given their distance from Earth and technological limitations. That said, the three planets have recently been found to have properties that can sustain life. And this […]

8y ago

Don’t Confuse Mercury Transit With Mercury Retrograde

Don’t Confuse Mercury Transit With Mercury Retrograde

While astrologers have been shaking in fear over Mercury retrograde, astronomers have been excited over the 2016 Transit of Mercury. Keep in mind that Mercury in transit and Mercury in retrograde are two separate concepts. On Monday (May 9), Mercury passed in front of the sun. You can only view it if you have a […]

8y ago

Mercury Transit Linked To Biblical World Destruction Prophecy: Doomsday Prophecies Spark End Of The World Fears [Video]

Mercury Transit Linked To Biblical World Destruction Prophecy: Doomsday Prophecies Spark End Of The World Fears [Video]

Wacky online doomsday prophets have been busy lately stirring the pot of doomsday hysteria with solemn-toned warnings of sulfur, fire, and brimstone divine wrath to accompany the transit of Mercury across the Sun on Monday, May 9, 2016. According to YouTube doomsday prophets, biblical prophecies show that the upcoming transit of planet Mercury signals the […]

8y ago

The Sun Will Showcase Mercury Crossing A ‘Solar Face’ On May 9

The Sun Will Showcase Mercury Crossing A ‘Solar Face’ On May 9

The sun will have a close encounter with the planet Mercury traveling across its face on May 9, 2016, in one of this year’s most-awaited astronomical events. The transit of Mercury, as the event is called, occurs 13 times per century, the next one happening on November 11, 2019. After that, no transit will take […]

8y ago

Exciting New Evidence Of Mercury’s Graphite Surface

Exciting New Evidence Of Mercury’s Graphite Surface

Scientists have long wondered what caused the darkness of the planet Mercury’s surface. A previous theory imagined that the dark surface could have been caused by carbon dust that littered the surface during the impact of comets. However, that theory has been challenged by a newer one that proposes Mercury’s surface was at one time […]

8y ago

Supreme Court Sides With EPA, Bars Coal Industry Petition For Unlimited Mercury Emissions

Supreme Court Sides With EPA, Bars Coal Industry Petition For Unlimited Mercury Emissions

Conservative Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts did a surprising thing today: he defended the Environmental Protection Agency and unilaterally struck down a request by the U.S. coal industry that would have allowed coal-fired power plants to temporarily un-cap emissions. Twenty U.S. states backed the coal industry petition to allow for unlimited amounts of mercury, […]

8y ago

Jim Carrey On Vaccine Law: Not Just Another Disgruntled Father Denouncing Mandatory Vaccinations

Jim Carrey On Vaccine Law: Not Just Another Disgruntled Father Denouncing Mandatory Vaccinations

Jim Carrey let the world know exactly what he thinks about U.S. Government’s mandatory vaccination laws newly enacted in California. However, the funny man’s rant on Twitter should not be construed as his complete dissent about vaccinations. Carrey blasted California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) on Twitter for Brown’s decision to sign Senate Bill 277. The […]

9y ago

Jim Carrey Slams Mandatory Vaccinations: ‘This Fascist Government Is Poisoning Our Children’

Jim Carrey Slams Mandatory Vaccinations: ‘This Fascist Government Is Poisoning Our Children’

In a vicious tirade of tweeting, funny man Jim Carrey has slammed mandatory vaccinations and accused the U.S. government of “poisoning children with mercury and aluminium.” Carrey’s dramatic outburst on social media comes in the wake of a new California law, which forbids parents the right to exempt their children from vaccinations for “personal or […]

9y ago

Messenger Probe Crashing Into Mercury Thursday – 10-Year Mission Illuminated Boring Planet

Messenger Probe Crashing Into Mercury Thursday – 10-Year Mission Illuminated Boring Planet

It’s been an amazing era of exploration for NASA’s Messenger probe. On Thursday that era will come to an end in spectacular fashion. After 5 billion miles and 15 trips around the sun, the probe will smash into the planet it’s been investigating for a decade at nearly 9,000 miles an hour, ABC News reported. […]

9y ago

Mercury Seen On Mars? Winged Head Of Roman God Spotted In NASA Photo, UFO Hunter Says

Mercury Seen On Mars? Winged Head Of Roman God Spotted In NASA Photo, UFO Hunter Says

What would the Roman god Mercury be doing on Mars? That’s what the UFO hunters who claim they have spotted the winged head of Mercury in a NASA photo of the Martian surface would like to know. The “discovery” turned up on a photo taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, an unmanned NASA spaceship that […]

9y ago

Name A Crater! NASA Asks The Public For Help Naming Mercury Craters

Name A Crater! NASA Asks The Public For Help Naming Mercury Craters

NASA is looking to name five craters found on Mercury. However, instead of having NASA scientists name the craters, NASA is opening voting and name suggestions to the public. Discovery reports that NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft is coming to the end of its mission. In honor of the mission’s achievements, NASA, teams at the Johns Hopkins […]

10y ago

NASA Discovers Han Solo Preserved In Carbonite On Mercury

NASA Discovers Han Solo Preserved In Carbonite On Mercury

Han Solo has been discovered in frozen carbonite state on the planet Mercury. NASA officials recently announced their unique and highly improbable finding. The photo of Han Solo frozen in carbonite was posted by the Messenger spacecraft division of NASA. The group notes that the formation in the terrain of the Caloris basin is “in […]

11y ago

Is That Han Solo On The Surface Of Mercury? [Seriously, Look]

Is That Han Solo On The Surface Of Mercury? [Seriously, Look]

He will not be permanently damaged. So NASA picked up an interesting image while taking pictures of Mercury. A Mercury Dual Imaging System WAC (wide-angle camera) took a picture of what appears to be Han Solo frozen in carbonite on the surface of the planet closest to the sun. The photo was taken in 2011, […]

11y ago

Green Rock Might Be Meteorite From Mercury

Green Rock Might Be Meteorite From Mercury

Scientists believe they have discovered Earth’s first meteorite from Mercury. The green rock was discovered in Morocco last year and according to meteorite scientist Anthony Irving, his groups year long study suggests that NWA 7325 came from Mercury. The groups findings were presented during the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, […]

11y ago

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