BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace ...

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

Bepi took a great picture of Mercury’s terminator – the line between night and day – showcasing craters Prokofiev, Kandinsky, ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of ...

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

On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the ...

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

The European Space Agency has released images the BepiColombo mission collected during its recent flight past Mercury when it ...

In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet ...

Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million ...

In 2026, the Bepicolombo Mercury Transfer Module will return to Mercury once again to release the ESA's Mercury Planetary ...

A spacecraft from the European and Japanese space agencies captured high-resolution images of Mercury's north pole, including ...