Even though the official mission doesn’t start until it enters orbit next year, BepiColombo has already done some neat science on its journey. “We learned a lot about the solar wind ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet.

The new images of these cold craters come courtesy of BepiColombo, a joint mission ... Stephanie Pappas is a contributing writer for Live Science, covering topics ranging from geoscience to ...

and BepiColombo is well-prepared. Between the two orbiters, 16 instruments will be scanning and photographing the planet once the science phase of the mission begins. Scientists hope to use these ...

“It is a very important science target for several of BepiColombo’s instruments when we get into orbit, because it offers our best chance to work out what it is about Mercury’s composition ...

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's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

During the flyby, Bepicolombo passed the night side of Mercury and then switched to the sunlit side, as ESA explained in a statement before the flyby. According to the researchers involved in the ...

Three images acquired by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft during its sixth Mercury flyby on Jan. 8, as selected by the ESA. | Credit: ESA/BepiColombo/MTM The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its ...