"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." ...

Japanese spacecraft made its closest flyby of Mercury to date, buzzing the planet’s north pole and peering into shadowed ...

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

New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe ... The probe launched in 2018 atop an Ariane 5 rocket on an eight-year voyage that will place it in orbit around Mercury. The original mission plan had 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 ...

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon . How ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! — Japanese-European spacecraft bound for Mercury weakened by thruster glitch — BepiColombo probe ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. Get any of our free email newsletters — news ...

The BepiColombo ... to Mercury later this year has gone on show at London's Science Museum. BepiColombo is due to blast off on a seven-year journey to the inner-most world on an Ariane rocket ...

BepiColombo launched in 2018 on an Ariane 5 rocket to seek out answers to mysteries surrounding Mercury. Its circuitous route to entering orbit around Mercury involves one Earth flyby, a pair of ...

BepiColombo ... too fast when it arrives at Mercury in 2025 or it won't be able to go into orbit around the diminutive world. "It would be so nice if we could take an express transfer and then ...