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

The ESA/JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury yesterday for the sixth time, just 183 miles above the planet's north ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe.

The spacecraft is equipped with three monitoring cameras, or M-CAMs, that captured black-and-white images of the innermost planet of the solar system. As the spacecraft approached Mercury from its ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing northern plains snapped by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo (European Space Agency via AP ...

European Space Agency A spacecraft beamed back close-up photos of Mercury as it flew less than 200 miles above the planet's pockmarked surface. The European Space Agency on Thursday released the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 ...