British-built spacecraft BepiColombo is just hours away from making its first flyby of Mercury, when it will snap pictures of the Solar System's smallest planet as it passes within 124 miles of its ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European and Japanese space agencies launched their first mission to Mercury yesterday (Oct.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: JAXA/ESA The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe made a flyby of its ultimate destination on Wednesday, capturing superb images of the planet's crater-covered crust. The gravity assist maneuver is part of what will be ...

Just a month ago, researchers announced the presence of phosphine in the clouds of Venus — an indicator that microbial life might be present on our sister planet. And, in a happy coincidence, there’s ...

The BepiColombo deep-space probe has successfully made its flyby of Earth on its journey to explore the planet Mercury. On April 10, 2020, at 6:25 am CEST, the joint ESA/JAXA mission passed within ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft headed to Mercury can be seen flying low above the ...

UPDATE: October 19, 2018: Right on schedule, the BepiColombo spacecraft is scheduled to blast off in the early morning of Saturday, October. Its seven-year mission will begin at the Guiana Space ...

A six-metre tall engineering model of the BepiColombo spacecraft is unveiled at the Science Museum in London during a media preview for its new display Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo. (Photo by ...

BepiColombo is set to begin its long journey to one of the least studied of Earth's seven neighboring planets. It is hoped the probe will offer insights into how our solar system was formed. A ...