A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...

The photos were released by the European Space Agency (ESA) as part of BepiColombo, a mission in partnership with Japan to ...

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final flyby ahead of entering the ...

This flyby will allow BepiColombo to capture high-resolution images of Mercury, and conduct unique measurements of its ...

The probe also captured the 1,500-km-wide Caloris basin, one of the largest impact structures in the Solar System. The images ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet ...