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 ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only ...

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

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 ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM 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 ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and ... get into orbit around the planet in late 2026, and capture even more information.

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 ...

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 ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.