The event, which astronomers call a transit of Mercury, will occur only 14 times during the 21st century. As seen from Earth, only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible, because these are the ...

Editor's note: This article, originally posted for the May 2016 Mercury Transit, has been updated for the Nov. 11, 2019 transit of Mercury. This Monday (Nov. 11), Mercury will appear to cross in ...

NASA's unmanned MESSENGER orbiter has uncovered evidence that the planet Mercury is subject to the same sort of periodic meteor showers as the Earth, only instead of a light show, it produces a ...

According to a newstudy, the planet Mercury experiences regular meteor showers atroughly the same time each year, as it moves through a trail of dustthrown off by the ancient comet Encke. The work ...

Amid zooming fireballs in the sky from the three active meteor showers, including Perseid, and the new moon rising in Leo on July 24th, there is more to watch; Mercury is in retrograde right now ...

The closest planet to the sun appears to get hit by a periodic meteor shower, possibly associated with a comet that produces multiple events annually on Earth. The clues pointing to Mercury's ...

The Lyrids meteor shower starts Saturday night and is expected to peak between midnight and dawn on April 23, according to NASA.

The Perseid meteor shower kicks off Thursday, July 17, but that isn't the only thing to watch for; the Mercury Retrograde in Leo starts on the same day. Here's what it means and what to know ...