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 ...

"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 ...

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

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

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 ...

BepiColombo is jointly designed by ESA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ( JAXA) and was launched in October 2018. It's primary objectives are studying Mercury's magnetosphere and interior ...

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

BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...