Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.

NASA's NIAC program is investing in visionary ideas that could revolutionize space exploration. From fusion-powered ...

The solar system's tiniest ... Using data from NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists have determined that a 10-mile-thick ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

The stunning snapshots reveal a closer look at the solar system’s smallest and ... who played a crucial role in NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s. Colombo’s contributions ...

This January and February, a rare planetary alignment featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will be ...

ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo mission recently completed its last flyby of Mercury, revealing stunning details about the ...

Lost in the drama of President Donald Trump’s flurry of executive orders and Inauguration Day announcements was this: He ...