The images show the planet’s cratered ... Previous missions have visited Mercury, but it remains an enigmatic planet. NASA’s Mariner 10 and Messenger spacecraft both checked out Mercury.

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to NASA. But the planet ... The new images of these cold craters come courtesy ...

The images, which reveal the depths of Mercury’s iconic polar craters ... per the Associated Press’ Marcia Dunn, including NASA’s Mariner 10, the first spacecraft sent to Mercury.

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

The flyby images, all black-and-white 1024x1024 ... which photographed Mercury in 1974-75, and NASA’s MESSENGER, which mapped it from 2008-2015. BepiColumbo is on a seven-year journey from ...

The close-up images beamed back to Earth showed ... a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras ... Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the ...

NASA has shared details of what to look out for in the night sky this month, with the moon appearing alongside a parade of planets.