From May 6 to 7, the Eta Aquarids shower will peak. This shower produces around 60 meteors an hour, primarily in the Southern Hemisphere.

If you want to be extra and impress your friends or colleagues, you might even think to add that Mercury is the only planet in our solar system that’s shrinking; you heard me right!

One of the key issues scientists worry about when visiting other planets is radiation exposure. This has been a persistent worry for years because on Earth, we don’t face this issue; we are protected by the planet’s magnetosphere, which creates the Van Allen Belt.