Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

"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 ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

New images of Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.

BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...

A photo of Mercury's cratered surface from BepiColombo, a spacecraft on a European and Japanese mission to explore the planet. The image was released Thursday by the European Space Agency.