While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun is breathtaking. The small planet even appears as a black disk silhouetted against the bright solar star that our solar system is centered around.

Read what the New Handbook of the Heavens — considered one of the best guides to the stars for the amateur astronomer — said about Mercury: "It stays close to the sun like a child clinging to ...

It’s just an optical illusion because Mercury zooms around the Sun faster than Earth does. During Mercury Retrograde, people believe that communication, tech, travel, and contracts go haywire.

‘The volume of lava making up Borealis Planitia is similar in scale to mass ... getting a good look at Mercury comes with the risk of looking directly at the blinding sun. Why is getting to ...