... apart. If Titan was not gravitationally bound to Saturn, then the moon could be considered a planet as it is larger than Mercury. It is the only object in space other than Earth where clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has...
... distribution of ice on the lunar surface is very patchy, which is very different from other planetary bodies such as Mercury and Ceres where the ice is relatively pure and abundant," added Li. “The spectral features of our detected...
...“It’s awesome. We could potentially use this technology to hop on the Moon, Ceres, Europa, Titan, Pluto, the poles of Mercury, asteroids — anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity,” explained Metzger. Metzger, who worked at NASA’s Kennedy...
... low-level radiation output, a red dwarf’s habitable zone is much closer to its host star – closer than Mercury is to our own sun. This makes getting life established on any close-in planets quite difficult. Not only...
... larger than our planet. Known as GJ 357 b, this scorching world orbits 11 times closer to its star than Mercury does our Sun. Without accounting for the additional warming effects of a possible atmosphere, this gives this...
In some daring flybys that took it closer to the Sun than Mercury, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has uncovered features that will fundamentally change our understanding of the Sun ...