Debris from Mercury's heavily cratered surface could have reached Earth, so why haven't we found meteorites from the ...

They’re not a perfect match, but it’s way too hot on the first planet for us to hop over and confirm for ourselves.

BepiColombo will collect data that scientists will use to determine if this lava moved into or out of the Caloris basin. BepiColombo's fifth flyby of Mercury occurred on Dec. 1, 2024.

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest ...

Scientists have observed whether the meteorites can reach Earth from Mercury. Over thousands of meteorites from Mars and the ...

BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek of the cratered planet it will begin to orbit in 2026.

Now, the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo is giving us new glimpses of the first planet in our solar system. Three new images captured this week showcase the little planet in amazing detail.

Now BepiColombo is heading back into the solar system before aiming to arrive in orbit around Mercury in November 2026. Then the spacecraft’s main camera will be unshielded and it will take ...

An artist illustrates BepiColombo before its component parts separate. ESA/ATG Medialab. If all goes well, Bepi will cruise through space for about seven years before it reaches orbit around Mercury.

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

BepiColombo’s chemical thrusters will stabilize the orbit gradually and, after traveling 5.5 billion miles (8.9 billion km), the mission will at last be underway.

BepiColombo will be only the second mission in history to orbit Mercury, the scorched rocky planet close to the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...