Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...
European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.
In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...
A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...
ESA's BepiColombo spacecraft is currently undertaking a series of gravity-assisted maneuvers around Mercury, capturing ...
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...
Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...
Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that ...
It seems like it should be pretty easy to get to Mercury. The little rocky planet is so much closer to Earth than distant destinations like Jupiter, where we’ve successfully sent multiple spacecraft.