Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees ... a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The BepiColombo spacecraft will start ...

Chinese researchers claim to have identified a potential vulnerability in the jet during a study of simulated combat ...

AI-Driven Performance Prediction Model to Advance Space Electric Propulsion Technology? Feb. 4, 2025 — A research team presents an AI assessor for Hall-effect ion thrusters, the engines of ...

New study finds solid diamonds beneath Mercury’s surface. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 A new study suggests Mercury might have a thick layer of ...

Credit: Blue Origin Here's a round-up of space missions and cosmic events ... will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of ...

the spacecraft passed within just 180 miles of Mercury’s surface, enabling it to capture close-up images of the planet. It passed the planet’s night side, which faces out into space and away ...

a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that flew ...

will focus on mapping the planet’s surface and studying its geological features, while the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio) will investigate Mercury’s magnetic field and space environment.

Imber, based at the University of Leicester, UK, is an expert on space weather and says her studies of Mercury could help us prepare for the worst solar storms here on Earth. She was also ...

it has been assumed that the new mercury surface exposed in the jet is uncharged, and that the charging of the surface takes place comparatively slowly, so that if the drops follow one another ...

Oct. 30, 2024 — More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using ...