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

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the ...

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.

Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured close-up images of Mercury’s north pole during its final flyby, offering new views ...

The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.

A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that ... what the ESA calls “some of the coldest places in the Solar System.” The shivery situation is to be further investigated ...