The European Space Agency released stunning snapshots showing the permanently shadowed craters at the top of our solar system ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new closeup images of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked plains.

In a thrilling close approach, the BepiColombo mission captured its final, stunning images of Mercury before its orbit ...

The BepiColombo mission successfully completed its sixth flyby of the innermost planet, moving closer to its final goal of ...

The BepiColombo satellite, in orbit around Mercury, photographed the rocky world's north pole for the first time up close. I ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft flew less than 200 miles from Mercury's surface and photographed volcanic plains and icy craters.

A farmer in New Zealand recently stumbled upon a new population of a rare species of weevil, conservation officials said. Google Street View © Google, August 2023 ...

After its closest-ever approach to the Sun, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe sent a signal back to Earth, saying it was healthy and working well. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team received ...

Stevenage-built BepiColombo makes final flyby of Mercury ahead of entering the plant's orbit in 2026. Advances in technology raise questions about the need to send people to space - and the risks ...

Astronomers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220 (pictured). NASA ...