An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation ...

A spacecraft has captured incredibly detailed images of Mercury during a close flyby. BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the small world from 2011 to 2015. Mariner 10 showed us that Mercury ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. BepiColombo 3 Captured ...

Mercury's surface can reach a blistering 800 degrees Fahrenheit (430 degrees Celsius) during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface at 6:59 CET on ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. Captured by M-CAM-2, this ...

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The spacecraft will continue its journey toward Mercury’s orbit, where it will study the ... primarily due to its proximity to the Sun. NASA estimates that daytime temperatures on the planet can reach ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...