In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet ...

This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 295 kilometres above Mercury’s night side before passing over the planet’s North Pole.

The National Reconnaissance Office launched new spy satellites into lower Earth orbit late Thursday, adding to the growing ...