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

Say hello to Mercury, that pesky rock ... gather more data about the mysterious planet for the following year. ‘These flyby images are an indication of the quality of data we can expect from ...

The newly released images show permanently dark craters spotting the surface of the planet closest to our Sun. Nearby volcanic plains and the largest impact cater on Mercury–over 930 miles wide ...

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

From just 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface ... captured stunning close-up images while on its final flyby of the tiny, sunbaked world. The photos represent a planet in the grip of extremes ...

What does life look like when you're the closest planet to the sun? New images of the Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched planet in ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...

This is an image of Mercury's tail obtained from combining a full day of data from a camera aboard the STEREO-A spacecraft. The reflected sunlight off the planet's surface results in a type of ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of the closest planet to the sun on Jan. 8. It flew just a few hundred ...

and the planet's largest impact crater. Mercury reflects two-thirds less light than Earth's Moon, making its surface appear remarkably dark. The flyby used gravity assist to steer BepiColombo closer ...