Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The BepiColombo spacecraft was expected to fly less than 200 miles above the ...
BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...
The spacecraft confirmed its systems and instruments are "healthy and operating normally," NASA said in an update released Thursday, a week after the probe passed within a record-breaking 3.8 ...