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 ...

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 ...

The space agency's planetary science analysis groups must pause while NASA checks if they comply with Trump's orders.

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

Credit: Blue Origin Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events just ... push Trump to axe moon rocket BepiColombo makes final Mercury flyby: Jan. 8 Mercury is the closest planet to ...

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.

Welcome to this month’s edition of “What’s up in the sky?” February has a nice lineup of planets and some eye-catching ...

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

You'll be able to easily see four planets in the February evening sky, and with any luck you'll be able to raise that number to five during the final week of the month. You'll be able to easily ...

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