BepiColombo flew just 183 miles above Mercury's surface during its cold and dark night, then passed over the north pole, continuing its path near the illuminated northern side of the planet.

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

In late July 2024, the Malargüe deep-space communication station completed an important upgrade of its antenna feed that will ...

After swinging around the planet, the spacecraft is flung back out into space, allowing it to change direction and continue on its intended path using less fuel. BepiColombo, a joint mission by ...

After swinging around the planet, the spacecraft is flung back out into space, allowing it to change direction and continue on its intended path using less fuel. BepiColombo, a joint mission by ...

allowing it to change direction and continue on its intended path using less fuel. Watch below: Spacecraft can fly by a planet to get a boost using gravity. BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA and ...

After swinging around the planet, the spacecraft is flung back out into space, allowing it to change direction and continue on its intended path using less fuel. BepiColombo, a joint mission by ESA ...

Research has shown that these crater bottoms likely contain thick deposits of water ice. The new images of these cold craters come courtesy of BepiColombo, a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace ...

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 ...

But, in fact, it’s actually really difficult to reach the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission has almost reached ...

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 ...