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 ...

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The sixth BepiColombo mission — launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — was able to examine a series of deep craters near Mercury’s north pole.

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 ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission from the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity ...

The mission launched in October 2018 as a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), each providing an orbiter to explore Mercury.

a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The BepiColombo spacecraft will start orbiting Mercury in 2026. Right now, it's conducting a series ...

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Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

It tells the stories of the Mercury 13, a group of women who trained to be astronauts in 1962, but were denied the ...