The sixth BepiColombo mission — launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — was able to examine a series of deep craters near Mercury’s north pole.

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

a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8 ...

a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The BepiColombo spacecraft will start orbiting Mercury in 2026. Right now, it's conducting a series ...

With the Artemis program, NASA aims to lay ... notes that BepiColombo aims to study Mercury's composition, atmosphere, and surface geology. Several space agencies plan to perform deep-space ...

On January 9, 1959, NASA selected the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation to develop the Mercury spacecraft, which would later carry the first American astronauts into space, Alan Shepard and Virgil “Gus” ...

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

New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...