This means that for each revolution around the Sun — the orbital period — Mercury rotates one and a half times around its axis; and that in two complete orbits around the Sun the planet ...

Mercury – named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods – is the smallest and closest to the Sun of the eight planets in the Solar System, with an orbital period of about 88 ...

After about three weeks of appearing to move backwards, Mercury will seem to start moving “forward” again. But what does science have to say about the idea that these orbital patterns affect ...