The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

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

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured close-up images of Mercury’s north pole during its final flyby, offering new views of the planet’s surface.

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

The European Space Agency released stunning snapshots showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of ... mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades ...

and it snapped some great images of the sun-scorched world on its way past. BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan. 9. The flyby began on the planet's ...

(AP) - A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury ... mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a ... during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury, dark equals cold.