The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 295 kilometres above Mercury’s night side before passing over the planet’s North Pole.

The National Reconnaissance Office launched new spy satellites into lower Earth orbit late Thursday, adding to the growing ...

This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...

Rough seas caused Blue Origin to hold off a planned early Friday launch attempt with is debut of New Glenn now targeting early Sunday instead. SpaceX, though, still has plans to launch later Friday ...

In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet ...