The 'hot Neptune' planet, named LTT 9779b, is so scorching that its atmosphere should have evaporated, according to ...

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury ...

Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM Plus, the situation doesn’t get any easier once you’re near Mercury. There’s no atmosphere to help a spacecraft slow down like there is at Venus or Mars.

How hot is Mercury? Mercury's sun-facing side is scorched by temperatures of around 430°C, hot enough to melt lead. Without a substantial atmosphere to distribute heat away from the areas facing the ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A few evenings ago I found myself in a remote layby in Utah close to ...

Nearly one third of known exoplanets are enormous gas giants, similar to Jupiter or Saturn. But whereas our solar system ...

"This is because Mercury has no atmosphere to regulate the temperature," Vincent said. "Its gravitational force is just too little to hold on to a blanket of air around it, and even if an ...

The Earth's gravitational field is pulling on air, and this pull, or "pressure" of air, is called atmospheric pressure. Toriccelli also went on to develop the mercury barometer, an instrument used ...

Envirotech Online is offering you the chance to dive into the world of mercury monitoring with free on-demand lectures. These ...

Ninety percent of the atmospheric mercury that falls into Minnesota lakes and streams and makes our fish unsafe to eat comes from outside of the state.  There may not be much we can do about that, ...