In 2026, the Bepicolombo Mercury Transfer Module will return to Mercury once again to release the ESA's Mercury Planetary ...
This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...
Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million ...
"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 close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.
On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the ...
On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...
Close-up pictures reveal dark craters that may hold a clue to Mercury’s greatest mystery – the existence of water on the planet closest to the Sun.
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...