When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: JAXA/ESA The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe made a flyby of its ultimate destination on Wednesday, capturing superb images of the planet's crater-covered crust. The gravity assist maneuver is part of what will be ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When the BepiColombo Mercury probe made its closest approach yet to its target earlier this month ...

Mercury has long been cast as the solar system’s burnt-out rock, a relic too small and too close to the Sun to hold many ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: ESA / JAXA / BepiColombo / MTM A robotic orbiter just took its first ...

The BepiColombo orbiter probe has passed within 552 km (343 miles) of Venus as it completed one of nine flybys on its way to the planet Mercury. Shortly after the close encounter, the ESA/JAXA joint ...

BepiColombo captured a farewell image of Mercury as it drifted farther away from the planet. Image: ESA A probe is familiarizing itself with the closest planet to the Sun, gearing up to explore ...

The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. Reading time 2 minutes For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have ...

The flyby took Europe's BepiColombo spacecraft within 150 miles (240 kilometers) of Mercury's surface. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...