Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

In late July 2024, the Malargüe deep-space communication station completed an important upgrade of its antenna feed that will ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, made its closest approach on January 8, 2025. Flying 295 km above Mercury, ...

The head of the European Space Agency says that ESA is ready for any changes in NASA's direction that may come as a result of the incoming new administration in the United States. ESA Director ...

Mercury's shadowy north pole revealed by M-CAM 1. (Photo: ESA/Jaxa) advertisement The mission has been pivotal in gathering data about Mercury, with this flyby marking a significant step before ...

This is a new artists animation of our galaxy, the Milky Way, based on data from ESAs Gaia space telescope. Gaia has changed our impression of the Milky Way. Even seemingly simple ideas about the ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast new light on the planet's many oddities, including its awful space weather ...

Arizona’s Universal Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program is a hot-button issue. Proponents say it allows parents of all income backgrounds to educate their child as they see fit while ...

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.

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

On January 8, 2025, the BepiColombo probe flew past Mercury for the sixth time, and the first images have just started to arrive on Earth. This is the first joint mission of ESA and the Japan ...