The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...

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

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

"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 photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before ...

A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.

This flyby will allow BepiColombo to capture high-resolution images of Mercury, and conduct unique measurements of its ...

The probe also captured the 1,500-km-wide Caloris basin, one of the largest impact structures in the Solar System. The images ...