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 ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet's gravity to ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications discusses the processes that produce auroras on the planet Mercury that were examined from the first flyby of the joint European Space Agency (ESA) ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On June 23, 2022, the joint European/Japanese Space Agencies’ mission to Mercury, BepiColombo, took a second swing past the solar ...

The European and Japanese team behind the BepiColombo mission to Mercury has shared the first image of the spacecraft’s recent flyby of the distant planet. The black-and-white image shows the planet ...

Mercury is receding into the distance in this image taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission in the early hours of 5 September 2024 as the spacecraft sped by for its fourth of six gravity assist ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: ESA / JAXA / BepiColombo / MTM A robotic orbiter just took its first ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet before ...