A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, ...

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

and the planet's largest impact crater. Mercury reflects two-thirds less light than Earth's Moon, making its surface appear remarkably dark. The flyby used gravity assist to steer BepiColombo closer ...

While the planets are technically always "aligned" along the same plane in our sky, seeing so many at once is a special ...

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The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

innermost planet. Close-up photos of Mercury’s north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) Cameras also captured views of neighbouring ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.