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Mercury and Venus an Awesome Duo at Dusk
As Universe Today's Dave Dickinson described earlier this week not only has Venus returned to the evening sky, but Mercury has climbed…
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Gallery: Spacesuits Are Amazing Human-Protection Machines
Did you know it's been nearly 50 years since the first spacewalk? On March 18, 1965, Russian Alexei Leonov ventured…
Get a Change of View of Mercury’s North Pole
It's always good to get a little change of perspective, and with this image we achieve just that: it's a…
Catch Mercury Brushing Past Venus in a Spectacular Dusk ‘Quasi-Conjunction’ This Week
Missing Venus? The third brightest natural object in the heavens returns to prime time dusk skies in 2015 after being…
Surprise! Asteroid Crashes And Raindrop Splashes Look Almost Alike
It's hard to study what an asteroid impact does real-time as you'd need to be looking at the right spot…
Mercury Spacecraft’s 2015 Death Watch Could Go One More Month
If all goes well -- and there's no guarantee of this -- NASA's venerable Mercury sentinel may have an extra…
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The Top 101 Astronomical Events to Watch for in 2015
Phew! It’s here. Now in its seventh year of compilation and the second year running on Universe Today, we’re proud…
Name That Crater On Mercury! MESSENGER Team Opens Public Contest
Here's your rare chance to leave a lasting mark on a piece of the Solar System. The team behind the…
Could Mercury Get A Meteor Shower From Comet Encke?
We're sure going to miss the MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury when it concludes its mission in 2015, because it keeps…
Delaying Death: Mercury Spacecraft Firing Engines To Stay Up Until 2015
Don't take these spectacular Mercury images (below the jump) for granted. Three weeks ago, NASA's orbiting Mercury spacecraft did an…