Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet this week, capturing another haunting image as it ...

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed. The video, released by the ...

The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s ...

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, has experienced an issue that is preventing the spacecraft's thrusters from operating at full power. BepiColombo is a three-part spacecraft ...

Europe's Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo made its third close flyby of its target planet on Monday (June 19), revealing a surface riddled with craters, including one that just received a name. The ...

The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. Reading time 2 minutes For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have ...

Mercury may be the least-explored planet in the inner Solar System, but the ongoing BepiColombo mission is creeping ever closer to the neighbor in our cosmic backyard. On June 23, BepiColombo ...

Space probe BepiColombo was launched in 2018 and is currently zipping through the vast blackness of the solar system on its way to explore Mercury. But on its journey, it has just flown past Venus, ...

Friedrichshafen, February 26th 2007 – Astrium is set to build the Mercury probe BepiColombo on behalf of the European Space Agency, ESA. ESA’s scientific programme decision-making body, the “Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of the planet Mercury taken by the European BepiColombo spacecraft during a gravity-assist flyby. The European-Japanese ...