On Jan. 8, one of those flybys brought the craft within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of the planet's surface. BepiColombo also ...

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

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

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 Mercury's surface have been released by the ESA, taken by the BepiColombo mission as it passed close to the ...

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before ...

Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...

of the planet's surface. BepiColombo also passed right over Mercury's north pole. The spacecraft sent back a series of stark images, including photos of the perpetually shadowed Prokofiev ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.

A photo of Mercury's cratered surface from BepiColombo, a spacecraft on a European and Japanese mission to explore the planet. The image was released Thursday by the European Space Agency.