Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, including its awful space weather ...

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 ...

As planets go, Mercury is a world of extremes – and one ... work as a co-investigator with Europe and Japan’s BepiColombo mission, which last week made its final and closest flyby of Mercury ...

“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,” Geraint ...

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.

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that ...

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole. When you purchase ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft captured the photographs during its last flyby of Mercury, a maneuver necessary to propel the mission into orbit around the planet Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...

European Space Agency BepiColombo is on a mission to uncover the mysteries of Mercury BepiColombo will attempt to determine what Mercury is actually made of, and whether water could exist in some ...