The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study our smallest planetary neighbor ...
Two Mercury-bound spacecraft are in the home stretch of their nearly decade-long voyage. The linked spacecraft — one European, the other Japanese — separated from their mother ship on Thursday.
BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury and the first to study the planet with two spacecraft.
A new study suggests that our solar system’s smallest planet has shrunk by up to 30 percent since its birth roughly 4.5 ...
Mercury, the tiniest and least-explored planet in the inner solar system, is hiding mysteries far larger than itself — and finally, scientists will soon be getting not one but two spacecraft designed ...
After nearly eight years, a mission to reveal Mercury’s secrets is arriving at its destination. But what lies ahead will not be easy.
Nothing like the controlled disassembly of BepiColombo has ever been attempted in such a harsh environment as the region of space near Mercury. Separation of the Mercury Transfer Module occurred 39 ...
The European Space Agency announced that the BepiColombo mission to Mercury is entering its final stage, two spacecraft to ...
Mercury has been shrinking since it formed in our solar system's early days. New evidence, though, suggests it used to be much larger than we thought.
Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the ...
New research suggests Mercury has shrunk more than previously estimated as its cooling core causes the planet's surface to ...
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