When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: JAXA/ESA The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. A robotic orbiter just took its first closeup pictures of Mercury's poles, passing ...

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...

'It really shows just how dynamic Mercury's space environment is.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When the BepiColombo Mercury ...

Ground teams cannot restore the spacecraft's full thrust, forcing it to take a different trajectory on its way to the innermost planet. Reading time 3 minutes The European Space Agency (ESA) is having ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe is a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The probe is intended to study Mercury's magnetic field, ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

In just a few hours, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will smack into the surface of Mercury, thus ending its 11 year mission. It sounds like a disaster, but this is always the way it was supposed to go ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. When the BepiColombo Mercury probe made its closest approach yet to its target earlier this month ...