That's less than a third of Mercury’s average distance from the sun. Jan. 13 will also see comet ATLAS G3's closest approach to Earth, potentially shining as brightly as magnitude -4.5. That ...

while the head of the comet (called the coma) easily rivaled the planet Mercury — which was then shining at magnitude -0.3 — in brightness. The comet reached perihelion on Jan. 13 at around ...

he would have been the Mercury Comet Cyclone. Listing off all the most beloved cars of the Golden Age of American muscle would start with Mopar, GM, Ford, and then probably AMC, with Mercury an ...

NASA and ESA's SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft snapped a video of the comet as it passed three times closer to our star than the orbit of Mercury, and ten times closer than ...

Mercury redesigned the Comet in 1964, but in addition to the new look, the big news this year was the introduction of the top-of-the-line Cyclone trim level. Considered a performance-oriented ...