The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the ...

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.

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

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.

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 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 ...

February brings a rare planetary parade, with five bright planets in clear view and a special alignment of Mercury and Saturn ...

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 ...

Stargazers will be treated to a dazzling six-planet "alignment" this January.

In one of the most striking images, the spacecraft ... work in the 1960s helped shape NASA's Mariner 10 mission, the first spacecraft to fly by Mercury. Colombo's contributions to space ...

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted with a flourish. The bright light of a solar flare on ...