Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

“We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of Mercury.” Sequence of 89 images ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

The six flybys of Mercury are a prelude to the spacecraft entering a polar orbit of the planet, which is when its actual mission will kick off. Orbital insertion is set to occur on Nov.

At about 06:59 CET on Wednesday, BepiColomo flew about 295km (183 miles) above Mercury's north pole A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and final ...

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that ...

Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The flyby was intended to give the probe the necessary gravitational boost to enter an orbit around ... night side of Mercury and then ...

The probe, equipped with Swiss instruments, has completed the last milestone before entering Mercury's orbit. The European-Japanese space probe has thus come closer to Mercury than ever before ...

This means that, from our perspective on Earth, it appears as if Mercury is moving backward in its orbit around the sun. Mercury in retrograde is not a rare or sudden occurrence. It happens three ...

Dwarf planet Pluto, on the other hand, has a fairly squashed orbit. Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has the most eccentric orbit, with the difference between the distance at perihelion and ...