On May 9, 2016, Mercury will appear to cross the face of the sun, as seen from Earth in a rare solar transit that occurs just 13 times a century. See visibility maps and charts for the 2016 transit of ...

Mini Mercury skipped across the vast, glaring face of the sun Monday in a rare celestial transit. Stargazers used solar-filtered binoculars and telescopes to spot Mercury - a tiny black dot - as it ...

Friday, June 27 The Moon passes 3° north of Mercury at 2 A.M. EDT. By evening the two are visible in the western sky, roughly 8° high an hour after sunset. The crescent Moon lies 9.5° east (to the ...