"The moment when we first looked at the MERTIS flyby data and could immediately distinguish impact craters was breathtaking!" ...

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

Mercury is the least explored of the four rocky planets in the inner Solar System. It wasn’t until 2011 that NASA’s MESSENGER ...

The mission’s close-up with the sun is the culmination of a dream that dates to the dawn of the space age, but progress was ...

Project Mercury was NASA's program that launched the first American astronauts into space, completing a total of six crewed spaceflights. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

The BepiColombo mission, a joint endeavor by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...

The first observations from MERTIS revealed that certain areas of Mercury’s surface shine brighter in the mid-infrared than others. More specifically, the Caloris Basin and parts of a large volcanic ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the ...

On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo pointed its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) at a swath of ...

Atop a towering Redstone rocket rested the one-ton Mercury space capsule of the type that is supposed to carry the first astronaut into orbit some time in late 1961. Instead of soaring 200 miles ...

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The spacecraft flew between Mercury and the sun, getting to within 37,630 km from the small planet's surface at 15:23 CET. This is much farther than its first four flybys of the planet ...