The joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission made its latest passage of Mercury on Wednesday (Jan. 8) at 00: 59 EDT (0259 GMT). During the flyby ...

The BepiColombo robotic explorer - a joint venture between Europe and Japan - swooped as close as 295 km above Mercury's ...

ESA/BepiColombo/MTM 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 ...

The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to send a spacecraft to Mercury. This latest round of photos comes via the ...

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, ...

“During the next few weeks, the BepiColombo team will work hard to unravel as many of Mercury’s mysteries with the data from this flyby as we can,” said the ESA’s Geraint Jones, the ...

Infographic explaining BepiColombo’s sixth flyby of Mercury. The joint mission from the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency—about as tall as a giraffe—is two spacecraft, ESA ...

On January 8, the robotic explorer operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) came as close as 183 miles above Mercury. The newly released images ...

This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity assist maneuvers” designed to place it into orbit around the planet by late 2026. ESA picked out the top three ...

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Deposits 300km in diameter reveal what the European Space Agency (ESA) called "the aftermath of the largest volcanic explosion on Mercury." Another "young" feature is the Fonteyn Crater ...

A joint effort of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft has been circling its target world, Mercury, for a while now, getting in ...