Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1. (Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM) But, in fact, it’s actually really difficult to ...

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

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 ...

Despite being relatively close to us, planet Mercury is one of the least studied places in this solar system. At first, our species ignored it because the conditions there, so close to the Sun, are ...

Right: Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter Mio of the BepiColombo mission; Left: Earth’s GEOTAIL satellite. The illustration highlights comparative studies of planetary magnetospheres. An international ...

One of the most ambitious missions currently underway is BepiColombo, a European-Japanese probe heading to Mercury. BepiColombo launched in October 2018. Over the past seven years, it has completed ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet's gravity to ...