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

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 ...

ESA picked out a trio of top images from the BepiColombo mission's sixth flyby of the planet Mercury. Mercury is coming into better focus through the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft flew by the ...