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.

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, ...

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

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in fascinating up-close detail. SEE ALSO: Is Mercury in retrograde?

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

At about 06:59 CET on Wednesday, BepiColomo flew about 295km (183 miles) above Mercury's north pole A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final ...