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Mercury is a rather weird planet that constantly intrigues scientists. Learn more about the planet closest to the sun with these 10 interesting facts.

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Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, the fastest planet orbiting the sun and the smallest planet in our solar system.

The mysterious rocky planet has the most peaks where its crust is thickest, and more may still be forming.

Systems is reckless, dangerous, and irresponsible. this is called an anti-satellite weapons test. >> vice president kamala harris announced the u.s. will no longer carry out these kinds of tests and shes urging other nations to follow suit. cnn innovation and space correspondent rachel crane joins us now. rachel, what does all of this mean? >> reporter: let me break it down for you because this ban is the first of its kind, but the u.s. has already demonstrated that we have this capability. we h...

. experts are warning that satellite pollution is threatening to alter our view of the night sky because thousands of pieces of debris or space junk, they failed or they have been just left in orbit by humans at the end of their mission. space junk can refer to dead sate satellites. but theres smaller things such as paint particles. how are those detrimental? >> theres so much debris, even too tiny to be tracked, thats still large enough to threaten human space flight and robotic missions. the...

Planet Mercury is the suns nearest planetary neighbor. It has short years, long days, huge surface temperature fluctuations and really weird sunsets.

Explore our 25 weird solar system facts and see how our neighborhood is stranger than we could ever imagine.

WinnAero, the non-profit STEM education group, has announced its Spring 2022 Teacher Workshop Schedule. All workshops are one-day and taught by New Hampshire certified science/technology/engineering professional faculty. The workshops will be...

Science Fiction & Fantasy   — by Andrew Liptak — There is no better example of how science fiction’s tendency to try and imagine a plausible future is like throwing a dart at a moving target than Larry Niven’s 1964 short story “The Coldest Place.” Up to that point, astronomers widely believed that the planet Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun: its rotation matched that of its orbit and as a result, only one side ever faced the Sun, meaning that its dark side would have been much...