They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

Scientists have observed whether the meteorites can reach Earth from Mercury. Over thousands of meteorites from Mars and the ...

Mercury is a mystery. It’s the smallest planet in our solar system, the closest to the Sun, and one of the most extreme. Its ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning images of Mercury as it sped past the planet at nearly 3 kilometers per second during its latest flyby. This remarkable event occurred on December ...

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Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

BepiColombo will only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. Captured by M-CAM-2, this image shows Nathair Facula, ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it’s actually two ...

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the mysteries it will soon investigate. Skip to main content.

One of BepiColombo’s main mission objectives is to discover whether that water really exists, and how much there is. The vast volcanic plains on Mercury known as Borealis Planitia.

BepiColombo made its first Earth and Venus flybys in 2020, and first swung past Mercury on Oct. 1, 2021. After one flyby in 2022 and 2023 each, the probe then made close approaches to Mercury on ...