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

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

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

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

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 ...

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

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

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that ...

"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 ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. The European Space Agency (ESA) published the ...

Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured close-up images of Mercury’s north pole during its final flyby, offering new views of the planet’s surface.