BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek of the cratered planet it will begin to orbit in 2026.

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 ...

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

The aim of the BepiColombo mission is to provide information on the composition, geophysics, atmosphere, magnetosphere and history of Mercury. The closest approach so far for the mission – about 165 ...

The spacecraft offered a clear view of Mercury's south pole while completing its fourth of six flybys. ESA / BepiColombo / MTM. A joint European-Japanese spacecraft has made its closest flyby of ...

Scientistsare sifting through their first new views of the planet Mercury in more thanthree decades thanks to images beamed home by NASA?s MESSENGER probe. Thecar-sized spacecraft zippedpast ...

This image accompanied the report, “The Evolution of Mercury’s Crust: A Global Perspective from MESSENGER,” by B. Denevi and colleagues appearing in the May 1, 2009, issue of Science ...

A new NASA mission to Mercury has been given the go-ahead to provide the first images of the entire planet. The first Mercury orbiter mission will also investigate how a planet with daytime ...

NASA's Messenger spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadowed craters near Mercury's north pole. The images not only reveal ...

The planet Mercury is seen in silhouette (lower left) as it transits across the face of the sun on May 9, 2016. Another transit of Mercury — the last one for 30 years — will take place Monday.