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

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, including its awful space weather ...

(AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 295 kilometers above Mercury’s night ...

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

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 ...

It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury ... the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission ...

On Jan. 8, one of those flybys brought the craft within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of the planet's surface. BepiColombo also passed right over Mercury's north pole. The spacecraft sent back a series ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of ... miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole.