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. The ...

Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system. Three pictures taken by the BepiColombo spacecraft ...

Mercury's largest impact crater, which is more than 930 miles (1,496km) wide, was also captured. The European and Japanese robotic explorer flew over Mercury's night side before passing directly ...