The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before ...

A spacecraft has captured detailed images of Mercury's north pole, shedding new light on the mysterious side of the planet.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...

New images of the planet Mercury taken by a robotic spacecraft have just been released — and they show the scorched world in ...

In one final hurrah, the BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury and captured extraordinary close-up images of the planet ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were ...

The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...

Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft captured close-up images of Mercury’s north pole during its final flyby, offering new views ...

Bepi took a great picture of Mercury’s terminator – the line between night and day – showcasing craters Prokofiev, Kandinsky, ...

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the ...

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million ...