Additionally, ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth flyby of Mercury ...

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 ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of the event on Jan. 9. Two moon landers on one rocket: Jan. 15 Two ...

the ESA marveled. What's more, these craters could harbor frozen water — a possibility the mission intends to soon investigate. On Mercury's northern hemisphere, the cratered surface has been ...

A parade of seven planets will appear in the night sky tonight, creating a striking display that won't be seen again until 2040. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Venus, Neptune, Mercury and Saturn will form ...

Nasa missions, providing the only non-US based Command station – Muchea in Western Australia – which was used for the Project Mercury missions. And since those heady days of the Space Race ...