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.

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?

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

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of ... [+] the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from ...

‘The first thing that strikes you is the incredible clarity of the images, which is particularly ... giving astronomers their first clear view of Mercury’s south pole. With its job done ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe. The ...

"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 ...

Caption 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 ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the planet's orbit in 2026. BepiColombo was built by the Stevenage-based ...

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.