However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

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

The video footage shows Mercury's northern plains, characterised by ancient lava flows and craters that have remained in permanent shadow. Listen to Story The footage reveal intricate details of ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of ... [+] the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from ...

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 begun to arrive on Earth. This is the first joint mission of the European Space ...

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.

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8 ...

But, in fact, it’s actually really difficult to reach the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission has almost reached ...

Now, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) are shedding new light on Mercury with the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft executed its sixth and final gravity-assist ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high-definition photos of our scorching hot solar system companion. Mercury is ...