The BepiColombo mission, a joint endeavor by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA ...

Significant advancements in space exploration were made throughout 2024, with missions targeting the moon, Mars, Mercury, and ...

The spacecraft collected new data on Mercury using its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, or MERTIS. The ...

Humankind accomplished new feats in space this year, including scooping up some of the moon’s farside and launching a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

The BepiColombo spacecraft made the "closest flyby of a planet ever" when it flew by Mercury, according to ESA. See ...

The images reveal a haunting view of this rocky world, often referred to as the "Problem Child of the Solar System" due to ...

On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 ...

On Sunday 1 024, BepiColombo flew past the planet Mercury for the fifth time, readying itself for entering orbit around the ...

Background: The Hayabusa2 spacecraft from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) explored the asteroid Ryugu and returned surface grains to Earth. It was anticipated that the grains brought ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft will take a revised trajectory to reach Mercury in response to problems with its electric propulsion system. Credit: ESA BREMEN, Germany — The European and ...

One of the runways at Vancouver International Airport will be closed for several days after a jet carrying Amazon packages overran it Tuesday morning. The Prime Air Boeing 767-300 operated by ...

[Project 326] wanted to know exactly what gas was in some glass tubes. The answer, of course, is to use a spectrometer, but that’s an expensive piece of gear, right? Not really. Sure, these ...