journey to mercury

SCIENCE

What If You Spent 5 Seconds on Mercury?

What If | January 18, 2025

Mercury is a strange, hot mess of a planet. This rock is closest to the Sun, but its surface temperatures can plummet to as low as -180 °C (-290 °F). It has the strangest sunrises and sunsets in the entire Solar System. And one day on this planet lasts about […]

SCIENCE

What Would You Look Like on Different Planets?

What If | January 7, 2025

If you were born and raised on Mars, your body would look very different. Mars might be the best candidate for humanity’s future space settlement. But as far as gravity, breathable atmosphere and liquid water go, it ain’t the kind of place you could survive – at least, not in […]