On June 23, 2022, the joint European/Japanese Space Agencies’ mission to Mercury, BepiColombo, took a second swing past the solar system’s smallest and innermost planet, donating some of its orbital ...

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Three images acquired by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When the BepiColombo Mercury probe made its closest approach yet to its target earlier this month ...

BepiColombo is slowly uncovering more and more fun facts about Mercury as it continues its preliminary mission. One of the ...

Just a month ago, researchers announced the presence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus — an indicator that microbial life might be present on our sister planet. And, in a happy coincidence, there’s ...