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

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

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

of the planet's surface. BepiColombo also passed right over Mercury's north pole. The spacecraft sent back a series of stark images, including photos of the perpetually shadowed Prokofiev ...

innermost planet. Close-up photos of Mercury’s north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) Cameras also captured views of neighbouring ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole ... of our solar system's innermost planet. The BepiColombo robotic explorer - a joint ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

These photos include some of the planet's largest craters ... activity will be among the main tasks of BepiColombo when it returns to Mercury. That won't happen until the very end of 2026 ...

"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 ...