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

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

Enigmatic planet Mercury posed for some closeups when the BepiColombo mission flew by. Craters, bright regions and volcanic ...

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

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

Japanese spacecraft made its closest flyby of Mercury to date, buzzing the planet’s north pole and peering into shadowed ...

A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of ...

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

Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...

Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to ...

The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.