Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to the sun has “frozen water” on its surface — and they’re excited to get a ...

A single year is left in the long joruney of the two BepiColombo spacecraft as they try to reach planet Mercury for a truly ...

Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet. While we have sent two spacecraft to Mercury – Mariner 10 and MESSENGER – ...

Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

It was seven years ago when a planetary mission called BepiColombo departed our world. A joint effort of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the ...

A European and Japanese spacecraft has captured some of the clearest images yet of Mercury’s north pole, including its permanently shadowed craters and vast volcanic plains. The BepiColombo spacecraft ...

A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has made its final flyby of Mercury, as scientists now work to guide BepiColombo into the planet’s orbit.

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 kilometers) above Mercury's ...

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