BepiColombo will be only the second mission in history to orbit Mercury, the scorched rocky planet close to the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft may have only made rapid flybys of Mercury, but it is already helping to unravel mysteries surrounding the closest planet to the sun. In 2026, a European Space Agency ...

A world of both fire and ice, Mercury excites and confounds scientists. The BepiColombo probe, launching on October 20, aims to make sense of this mysterious world.

The BepiColombo space mission made its first flyby of Mercury around 7:34 p.m. ET on Friday and passed within 124 miles (200 kilometers) of the planet’s surface. BepiColombo will collect science ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist maneuver. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, CC BY-SA ...

The European and Japanese mission BepiColombo has made its first flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet it will eventually be exploring in more depth.

The result is a new Mercury mission called BepiColombo, which will reach the innermost planet of our solar system in December 2025. Here's how the mission came to be. Liftoff!

The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its BepiColombo mission to the planet Mercury from its spaceport near the equator in Kourou, French Guyana, on October 20.

BepiColombo, an international space mission to explore Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, will launch in mid-October from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana—an overseas region of France ...