The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system.

at the space agency's Annual Press Briefing on Thursday morning. The six flybys of Mercury are a prelude to the spacecraft entering a polar orbit of the planet, which is when its actual mission ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission from the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity ...

The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one for Europe and the other for Japan, that will circle the planet's poles. This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's ...

BepiColombo, consisting of two conjoined spacecraft, flew past Mercury for the sixth and final ... 2018 as a joint venture between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace ...

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 ...

A spacecraft built in the UK has captured new images of Mercury as it made its sixth and ... BepiColombo's project scientist at the European Space Agency, added: "In the next few weeks, the ...

A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the ... The sixth BepiColombo mission — launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) ...

The European Space Agency released the stunning ... kilometers).This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018. The maneuver put the ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft came within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of Mercury’s surface during its sixth and final flyby, the European Space Agency announced Thursday. The stunning snapshots reveal a ...