The BepiColombo Mercury probe made a flyby of its ultimate destination on Wednesday, capturing superb images of the planet's crater-covered crust. The gravity assist maneuver is part of what will be ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA’s spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet before ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: ESA / JAXA / BepiColombo / MTM A robotic orbiter just took its first ...

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA spacecraft on a mission to Mercury, is now firing its thrusters for the first time in flight. On Sunday, BepiColombo carried out the first successful manoeuver using ...

"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." When you purchase ...

Artist’s impression of the BepiColombo spacecraft in cruise configuration, flying past Earth and with the Sun in the background. ESA/ATG medialab The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft ...

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ESA picked out a trio of top images from the BepiColombo mission's sixth flyby of the planet Mercury. Mercury is coming into better focus through the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft flew by the ...

These pictures of Mercury’s pockmarked surface are the last we’ll see before the BepiColombo mission begins orbiting the solar system’s innermost world in late 2026. Since launching in 2018, the joint ...

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. In order to get close to the planet, ...