The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...
New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...
The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...
The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.
The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...