The BepiColombo satellite, in orbit around Mercury, photographed the rocky world's north pole for the first time up close. I ...

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, ...

Earth" and a massive outer planet, revealing insights into extreme planetary evolution. An international research team, led ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

Space debris is an escalating problem, risking the onset of Kessler Syndrome, a cascade of collisions that could make Earth's orbit unusable. With thousands of tons of material in orbit and ...

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Smaller planets like Mercury have a tiny Hill sphere radius ... During that collision, a big chunk flew off the Earth and into its orbit and became the Moon. Scientists guess that the Moon ...

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