The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of ...

Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events just around the bend in 2025. Several companies will attempt moon ...

This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...

Dr Fox added: ‘I will worry about the spacecraft. But we really have designed it to withstand all of these brutal, brutal conditions. It’s a tough, tough little spacecraft.’ ...

During this daring approach, the spacecraft will endure temperatures of up to 982C in its mission to "touch" the sun, as part of Nasa's efforts to better understand our star. Dr Nicky Fox, Nasa's ...

Artist’s concept of Parker Solar Probe. On Tuesday, Dec. 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got to within ... [+] just 3.86 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface. NASA’s ...

On Dec. 24 at 6:53 a.m. Eastern time, the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more than seven times closer than any previous mission has.

After nearby rainfall swept westward off Cape Canaveral, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminated the Monday night darkness at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, launching and lifting a Lockheed ...

BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...

Types of data used to create some of the sonifications include visual and ultraviolet light from the Hubble Space Telescope, infrared and visual light from the James Webb Space Telescope, and infrared ...