BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. BepiColombo 3 Captured ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board ... BepiColombo follows in the footsteps of NASA's Mariner 10, which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which ...

NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury’s surface is cratered and barren, lacking any atmosphere ...

The images show the planet’s cratered surface and volcanic plains ... Previous missions have visited Mercury, but it remains an enigmatic planet. NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger spacecraft ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on Jan ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. Captured by M-CAM ...

M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury's north pole at 07:07 CET, when the spacecraft was about 787 km from the planet’s surface. The spacecraft’s closest approach of 295 km ...