The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

The BepiColombo mission has been on its way to Mercury since 2018 and will finally start orbiting the planet and taking X-ray ...

From the ‘year of the Moon’ to discovering ‘the history of the entire solar system,’ here is what to look out for. View on ...

A European-Japanese space mission will reach Mercury in 2026, carrying instruments designed to answer a question that has ...

But, in fact, it’s actually really difficult to reach the innermost planet of our solar system—which makes it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission has almost reached ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

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 ...

Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, was getting photographed Friday by a spacecraft. The BepiColombo mission made its first flyby of Mercury around 7:34 p.m. ET on Friday as it was ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Space systems play an outsized role in modern life and require ever-increasing amounts of processing power to enable sophisticated in-space applications and manage ...