The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...

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The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...

On Mercury, craters are named after “artists, musicians, painters and authors who have made outstanding or fundamental ...

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

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.

captured a swath of Mercury's northern hemisphere, including part of a wide volcanic plain and part of the Caloris Basin: a rocky plain inside a large impact crater, which, on every other orbit ...