Watch the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flyby the closest planet to the sun in this set of images captured. It was the 3rd flyby of Mercury for the spacecraft. The music used in the video "was composed ...

Mercury may have gotten much of its polar ice within a single Mercurian day following a massive asteroid impact, a new study ...

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has offered a definitive date for the BepiColombo mission’s arrival at Mercury.

Although Mercury is closest to the Sun, it remains one of the hardest worlds to reach. The BepiColombo mission, a project by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is ...

Mercury’s polar ice deposits may have formed in just one Mercurian day after a giant comet or asteroid slammed into the ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

The source of the significant water ice deposits hidden in Mercury's polar regions has been a topic of debate among ...

A prototype ion engine that uses lithium vapor as a propellant has aced its first tests, achieving 25 times more power than previous ion engines.

The most impressive feature on Mercury is the Caloris Basin, a vast, multi-ringed crater over 800 miles across, which is ...

Twin probes destined for Mercury were launched on Friday as a part of a joint mission by European and Japanese space agencies. An Ariane 5 rocket lifted the uncrewed spacecraft into orbit from French ...