The BepiColombo spacecraft is to make a closer-than-planned flyby of Mercury this week, whizzing past the planet at approximately 165 km from the surface after the European Space Agency's (ESA ...

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft is set for a Mercury flyby late on Wednesday (Sept. 4), but thruster issues mean the probe faces a lengthy delay before entering orbit around the ...

"In the next few weeks, the BepiColombo team will work hard to unravel as many of Mercury's mysteries with the data from this flyby as we can." You can visit the ESA's site for a more detailed ...

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This image accompanied the report, “The Evolution of Mercury’s Crust: A Global Perspective from MESSENGER,” by B. Denevi and colleagues appearing in the May 1, 2009, issue of Science ...

In its January 2008 flyby, MESSENGER imaged 21% of Mercury's surface that had never before been observed by a spacecraft. Moreover, in areas previously imaged by Mariner 10, different lighting ...