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 ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission from the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity ...

Satellites have managed to detect faint electromagnetic signals generated by ocean tides, suggesting that space-born sensors ...

The European and Japanese robotic ... contributed to NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency’s tethered satellite project that ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it’s actually two ...

It was seven years ago when a planetary mission ... the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft has been circling its target world, Mercury ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European ... mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space ...