As BepiColombo sped past Mercury during its June 2023 flyby, it encountered a variety of features in the tiny planet's magnetic field. These measurements provide a tantalizing taste of the ...

Mercury is a planet of extremes. ... The landscape still has an other-worldly feel, Mari says, with greenish rocks rich in minerals. "In certain areas of Cyprus's mountains, ...

A series of images taken by two satellites flying past Mercury captured multiple "tectonic and volcanic curiosities" as well as an impact crater on the planet. The satellites, jointly named the ...

The BepiColombo mission to Mercury – Europe’s first craft to the planet – has successfully completed its fourth gravity-assist flyby as it uses the planet’s gravity to enter orbit around Mercury in ...

Mercury’s impact craters, also known as peak ring basins, were created as a result of asteroids or comets smashing into the tiny planet. Many of them, however, were flooded by volcanic lava ...

NASA also points out that July and August is an excellent chance to view the constellation Aquila, also known as the eagle as ...

BepiColombo, a joint European-Japanese mission, completed its latest flyby of Mercury, sending back a sneak peek of the cratered planet it will begin to orbit in 2026.