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.

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

The BepiColombo mission to Mercury – Europe’s first craft to the planet – has successfully completed its fourth gravity-assist flyby as it uses the planet’s gravity to enter orbit around Mercury in ...

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 ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole.

ESO astronomers captured a clear image of a star system 11 quadrillion kilometers away using the combined forces of three telescopes.

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the mysteries it will soon investigate.

Monday morning, the solar system's innermost planet will begin a 5.5-hour march across the disk of the sun. All you need to see it are clear skies and access to a telescope with a sun filter.

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.

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 ...