The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice ...

Mercury has some of the hottest temperatures in the solar system where sunlight falls on its scorched surface, but it also ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the ...

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...

Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

(European Space Agency via AP) This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing Nathair ...