Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, followed by Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Mercury orbits ...

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.

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.

Venus may be grabbing all of the headlines, but the craters of Mercury's north pole region star in the latest stunning images from the $1.8 billion BepiColumbo mission. Flying just 183 miles (295 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of the event on Jan. 9. Two moon landers on one rocket: Jan. 15 Two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...