The European and Japanese team behind the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has shared the first image of the spacecraft’s recent flyby of the distant planet. The black-and-white image shows the planet ...

The European and Japanese mission performed the first of six slingshot manoeuvres around the planet. It will ultimately insert two probes into orbit in 2025. The European and Japanese BepiColombo ...

Despite being an icon in pop culture, our Sun's closest neighboring planet, Mercury, has had a fairly boring life when it comes to space exploration. Thus far, only two NASA missions have explored the ...

A thruster problem has meant a spaceship has passed incredibly close by Mercury – and taken stunning images of the planet. Scientists have been working to overcome a glitch that prevented ...

The European and Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft made the closest ever measurements of the magnetic field of Mercury above the planet's southern hemisphere as it zoomed past, snapping epic selfies ...

The European and Japanese mission BepiColombo has made its first flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet it will eventually be exploring in more depth. In order to get close to the planet, ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts ...

The European and Japanese spacecraft performed the first of six slingshot maneuvers around the planet. It will ultimately insert two probes into orbit in 2025 The European and Japanese BepiColombo ...

It's the first of six Mercury flybys before BepiColombo enters orbit in 2025. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Two spacecraft ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet before ...

Mercury is a planet that's always been a mystery. Recently, two spacecraft have flown and came so close to the planet. A European-Japanese joint science mission to study Mercury, BepoColombo, is back ...

The latest mission to Mercury is off to a great start! On October 1, BepiColombo — a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — made its ...