The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed. The video, released by the ...

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

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An international team from Kanazawa University (Japan), Tohoku University (Japan), LPP (France), and partners has ...

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 ...

Artist’s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft in cruise configuration, flying past Earth and with the Sun in the background. ESA/ATG medialab The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft ...

A thruster problem has meant a spaceship has passed incredibly close by Mercury – and taken stunning images of the planet. Scientists have been working to overcome a glitch that prevented ...

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA spacecraft on a mission to Mercury, is now firing its thrusters for the first time in flight. On Sunday, BepiColombo carried out the first successful manoeuver using ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from around 787 km, ...