Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft achieved a monumental milestone on January 8, 2025, with its sixth and final flyby of Mercury. This maneuver brought the spacecraft to just 185 miles ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it's actually two ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

Three images acquired by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on Jan. 8, as selected by the ESA. | Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its ...