Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: 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 ...

Science Alert notes that BepiColombo aims to study Mercury's composition, atmosphere, and surface geology. Several space agencies plan to perform deep-space flyby missions in 2025, which promise ...

Previous missions have visited Mercury, but it remains an enigmatic planet. NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger spacecraft both checked out Mercury. Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in the 1970s while ...

a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to previous space missions, per the Associated Press’ Marcia Dunn, including NASA’s Mariner 10, the first spacecraft sent to Mercury.

Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re ...

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This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing northern plains snapped by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo (European Space Agency via AP ...

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.