Sentences with phrase «innermost planet in our solar system»

NANTES, FRANCE — Despite basking in the sun's fiery glow, tiny Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, is probably home to extensive ice fields.

The star, designated Kepler - 10, dimmed 0.015 % every 0.84 day, revealing a planet — dubbed Kepler - 10b — orbiting only 1 / 20th as far from its star as Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, orbits the sun.

For comparison, Mercury, the innermost planet in the solar system, takes 88 days to circle the sun.

Not exact matches

NASA's Mariner 10 mission detected a magnetic field around our solar system's innermost planet in 1974, but its cause remained a mystery — until recent measurements suggested that Mercury's core may be partly molten.

Incidentally, that's the same fate that awaits Mercury and Venus, the two innermost planets in our own solar system, when the sun grows into a bloated red giant star some 5 billion years from now.

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days.

Now, the treasure trove of data gathered by the spacecraft before its demise is helping scientists answer questions about the solar system's innermost planet in unprecedented detail.