A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

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

The BepiColombo spacecraft—a joint endeavor between the European and Japanese space agencies—has just snapped stunning ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...

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

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

(AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

Craters at Mercury's north pole are visible just left of the "terminator," or the line between day and night. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission snapped this image on January 8, 2025. ESA ...