The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. A robotic orbiter just took its first closeup pictures of Mercury's poles, passing ...

As an end-member of terrestrial planet formation, Mercury holds unique clues about the original distribution of elements in the earliest stages of solar system development and how planets and ...

When people think of NASA, despite all the work it does monitoring the Earth's climate and exploring the bodies of the Solar ...

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

HOUSTON – Early science results from MESSENGER’s flyby of Mercury and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kaguya mission to the moon highlight the 39th annual Lunar and Planetary Science ...