European Space Agency via AP A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing ...

A European-Japanese space mission seeking to learn more about Mercury caught its first glimpse of the planet late Friday when a European spacecraft shot a photo of it from over 2,400 kilometers away.

The image shows the northern hemisphere and Mercury’s pock-marked landscape, including the 103-mile wide Lemontov crater, according to the European Space Agency.

The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft recently made a close flyby of Mercury, and it snapped some stunning pictures along the way.

The sixth BepiColombo mission — launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — was able to examine a series of deep craters near Mercury’s north pole. 3 ...

The European Space Agency said the captured image shows the Northern Hemisphere and Mercury's characteristic pock-marked features, among them the 166-kilometer-wide (103-mile-wide) Lermontov crater.

The European Space Agency recently released videos and other observations from the January 3 transit, where Mercury appeared as a black circle across the face of the sun.

A spacecraft with a mission to explore Mercury has been launched in a combined effort by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The aim of the mission is to study ...

The European Space Agency is sending a mission to explore the mysteries of Mercury. BepiColombo, named after the Italian mathematician and engineer Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, launched at 9:45 p.m ...

European Space Agency BepiColombo: Mercury Stumps Scientists, but This Mission Could Finally Unravel Its Mysteries Published May 17, 2018 at 12:28 PM EDT Updated May 18, 2018 at 3:31 AM EDT ...

GET IT ON G E T I T O N This image made available by the European Space Agency (ESA) shows planet Mercury taken by the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft Mercury Transfer Module’s ...

A joint European-Japanese spacecraft got its first glimpse of Mercury as it swung by the solar system’s innermost planet while on a mission to deliver two probes into orbit in 2025.