A spacecraft with a mission to explore Mercury has been launched in a combined effort by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The aim of the mission is to study ...

The European Space Agency said the captured image shows the Northern Hemisphere and Mercury’s characteristic pock-marked features, among them the 103-mile-wide Lermontov crater.

T he 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, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

The mission, a collaboration between the European and Japanese space agencies, aims to provide unprecedented data about Mercury’s geological history, magnetic field, and poles.

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the BepiColombo mission in 2018, and it is set to enter orbit around Mercury in 2025. In the meantime, it will be making several flybys of the planet ...

A satellite launched in 2020 to take observations and study the solar system’s 4.6-billion-year-old sun had a front-row seat as the planet Mercury moved around the giant star, and the entire ...

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. 3 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has plans for 2025 as well. In the third quarter of the year, ESA intends to conduct an orbital test flight of its uncrewed Space Rider spacecraft.

The U.S. space agency said the orbiter stays at least 26 million miles away from the sun and can withstand temperatures up to 970 degrees due in part to a large heat shield that protects most of ...