But the Rosetta spacecraft revealed today that is not the case. The European Space Agency released the first images of Philae's bumpy landing today. Orbiting spacecraft Rosetta captured the lander ...

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another ... they won’t get the chance to take any more images of Mercury. The images taken show the craters covering the surface ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury’s north pole taken by the ...

A European and Japanese spacecraft has captured some of the clearest images yet of Mercury’s north pole, including its permanently shadowed craters and vast volcanic plains. The BepiColombo ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 ...

The mission carried out its first flyby of the planet in October 2021 and has been returning gorgeous close-up images of the solar system’s smallest planet, as well as valuable data about the ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. Credit: European Space Agency via AP This image ...

Mercury is coming into better focus through the BepiColombo mission. The spacecraft flew by the planet on Jan. 8, snapping a stunning set of closeups as it went. The images show the planet’s ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet.