It's the first Jobs Friday of the new year, and there's good news! The unemployment rate ticked down slightly to 4.1%, and ...

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

Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace ...

BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...

This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever ...

It was measured by the MERTIS instrument on the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on December 1, 2024, as the spacecraft flew past the planet for the fifth time. The MERTIS data is overlaid on the global ...

On its seven-year journey to Mercury, the European-Japanese mission BepiColombo takes advantage of the gravity of Earth, Venus, and Mercury to adjust its trajectory and reach its final orbit. Launched ...

Artist's concept depicts new research that has expanded our understanding of exoplanet WASP-69 b's "tail." NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) A team of scientists led by Dakotah Tyler of the University ...

Earlier this week, the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury for the fifth time, as the agency plans for the spacecraft’s arrival in the planet’s orbit in November 2026.