Reaching Mercury is such a challenge because “the gravitational pull of the Sun is very strong near Mercury, which makes it ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back three images of Mercury after a brief flyby of the planet on Jan. 8, 2025.

A joint Japanese-European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the ...

This is already the sixth mission of the BepiColombo probe in Mercury's orbit. This time, it approached the most minor planet ...

This is already the sixth mission of the BepiColombo probe in Mercury's orbit. This time, it approached the most minor planet ...

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

A spacecraft named BepiColombo is currently zipping by planet Mercury, making a very close flyby and snapping incredible high ...

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made its ...

Musk launched his personal Tesla Roadster into space on February 6, 2018, as a test payload for the Falcon Heavy rocket.

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the solar system's first planet in about two years, but it's been whizzing past Mercury regularly as it lines up its approach. The ESA reports that ...