Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...
Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million ...
The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.
A planet parade like the one beginning tonight is quite uncommon, occurring once every 10-20 years. Here are the planets you ...
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...
On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the ...
Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured close-up images of Mercury’s north pole during its final flyby, offering new views ...
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft achieved a monumental milestone on January 8, 2025, with its sixth and ...
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, residing just 36 million miles from our Solar System’s center. However, not too far above its surface, the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo probe has taken ...
The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before ...
The European Space Agency has released images the BepiColombo mission collected during its recent flight past Mercury when it ...