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, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

Venus may be grabbing all of the headlines, but the craters of Mercury's north pole region star in the latest stunning images from the $1.8 billion BepiColumbo mission. Flying just 183 miles (295 ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, made its closest approach on January 8, 2025. Flying 295 km above Mercury, ...

PixelsEffect/E+/Getty Images Anytime Mercury retrogrades, the Mercury-specific themes in people’s lives will be affected — but each backspin has its own flavor based on what zodiac signs it's ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...