After nearly eight years, a mission to reveal Mercury’s secrets is arriving at its destination. But what lies ahead will not ...

Mercury has been shrinking since it formed in our solar system's early days. New evidence, though, suggests it used to be ...

Nothing like the controlled disassembly of BepiColombo has ever been attempted in such a harsh environment as the region of ...

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study ...

On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the 3rd ...

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is extremely difficult to study up close. In fact, just one spacecraft, NASA’s ...

Mercury may be shrinking much faster than we thought — and that could reveal new clues about its violent origins.

After an eight-year journey, a spacecraft carrying European and Japanese probes began the monthslong, high-risk approach to ...

Mercury's surface is riddled with wrinkles, evidence of a once-larger planet that has shrunk over time. A new study finds ...

BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury and the first to study the planet with two spacecraft.

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...