The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before ...

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

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...

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

A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from ...

In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet ...

"Because Mercury's surface is surprisingly poor in ... an impact crater previously photographed by the Mariner 10 (1974-1975) and Messenger (2011-2015) spacecraft. Breaking space news, the latest ...

BepiColombo is only the third mission ever to visit Mercury, and in 2026, it will become the second mission to enter the planet’s orbit. The first two missions were NASA’s Mariner 10, which made three ...