Teams from across ESA and industry have worked continuously over the past four months to overcome a glitch that prevented BepiColombo's thrusters from operating at full power. The ESA/JAXA mission is ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing images of two special impact craters as it uses the little planet's gravity to ...

BepiColombo, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission, has revealed how electrons raining down onto the surface of Mercury can trigger high-energy ...

The European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft took this stunning sequence of images of its target planet Mercury during a gravity assist flyby designed to alter its speed. The video, released by the ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has made its sixth and final flyby of the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, capturing some incredible images of the tiny world. The photos offer tantalizing hints about ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet this week, capturing another haunting image as it ...

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Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd flyby of Mercury for the spacecraft. The music used in the video "was composed ...