The Earth is hardly the only body in our solar system with volcanic activity. In fact, volcanic activity on Earth is actually quite tame when compared to the volcanic activity on a few other planets and quite a few moons in our Solar System. Of course, the Earth’s moon does not have a [...]

The planet Mercury has many mysteries of which the new spacecraft MESSENGER hopes to solve, but one of those mysteries is of particular interest to scientists. There are many eccentric features of the small planet closest to the Sun, but one theory suggests that the planet is shrinking. Slowly contracting in on itself [...]

According to one theory, Mercury was created after a giant asteroid collided with an even larger object about 4.5 billion years ago. This collision created the planet now known as Mercury and also shot a large amount of debris into space.
This idea that Mercury was the result of a collision was stemmed from the [...]

Pluto just celebrated its anniversary last year and commemorated it later in the year with a demotion from status as the ninth planet in our solar system to a significant dwarf planet. The discovery of Pluto was made seventy-six years ago and scientists still don’t really know much about this icy cold celestial body. [...]