KARACHI: Pakistan Meteorological Department has predicted that a "cold wave" was likely to grip Sindh, including Karachi, from Sunday with the temperature expected to...
KARACHI: People in Karachi experiencing hot weather as mercury has soared to 42ºCelsius in the port city, said the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) on...
ISLAMABAD: Taking another revolutionary step in health sector, the government has decided to impose ban on all the medical instruments containing mercury, a toxic...
An unmanned European-Japanese space mission, dubbed BepiColombo, blasted off early Saturday morning, to Mercury the smallest planet in the solar system.
PARIS: European and Japanese scientists on Thursday proudly unveiled the BepiColombo spacecraft ahead of its seven-year journey to Mercury, to explore one of the...
Tiny Mercury, the solar system's innermost planet, sailed across the face of the sun on Monday, a celestial dance that occurs about once every decade as Earth and its smaller neighboring planet align in space.
PARIS: Astronomers on Monday were preparing for one of the highlights of the skywatchers' year, when the Sun, Mercury and Earth all line up -- a phenomenon that happens just a dozen or so times per century.
As mercury in Karachi soaring above 40 centigrade coupled with menace of power outages and water crisis, the provincial capital of Sindh, like all the cities in the northern hemisphere, will experience the longest day of the year today [Sunday].
The MESSENGER probe -- short for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging -- was the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, and issued a...
MIAMI: A NASA probe that has circled Mercury for the past four years will make a dramatic death plunge into the planet's surface in late April when it runs out of fuel.