Despite being an icon in pop culture, our Sun's closest neighboring planet, Mercury, has had a fairly boring life when it comes to space exploration. Thus far, only two NASA missions have explored the ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its next close flyby of Mercury on 19 June, when it will pass the planet's surface at an altitude of about 236 km. This is the third of six gravity ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three views of Mercury taken by the European BepiColombo mission during its flyby of the planet in June 2023. Europe's ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its third of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, snapping images of a newly named impact crater as well as tectonic and volcanic curiosities as it adjusts ...

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The spacecraft is preparing to enter the planet's orbit in 2025, firing its thrusters against the Sun's powerful gravitational pull. Reading time 3 minutes A probe is familiarizing itself with the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the BepiColombo mission in 2018, and it is set to enter orbit around Mercury in 2025. In the meantime, it will be making several flybys of the planet, ...

A pair of Mercury probes got up close and personal with the solar system’s underdog planet, revealing its cratered surface in a newly released video of the otherworldly encounter. The European Space ...

Image: On January 9, 2008, the MESSENGER spacecraft snapped one of its first images of Mercury at a distance of about 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet. The image was acquired ...