A layer of diamonds was found beneath Mercury's surface. This could help scientists understand the planet's unusual magnetic ...

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 ... only be the second spacecraft to do it, following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. BepiColombo 3 Captured by ...

Asawa is the latest artist to lend their name to a planetary feature via the IAU naming committee. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images My readers are coming from ...

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

Jasinski previously worked on NASA’s MESSENGER mission to Mercury. Out of the thousands of orbits made by this spacecraft around the planet over a four-year period, there were occasional times where ...

A high-tech sensor designed and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has now traveled farther than 250 ...

This view of Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system, was obtained during the first flyby of MESSENGER in 2008 and is a mosaic constructed from hundreds of individual images. Credit: ...

Mercury was visited by Mariner 10 which flew by twice in 1974 and once in 1975, capturing images of one hemisphere. The Messenger spacecraft ... challenges are further discussed in later chapters.