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 ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) 31,515 people ...

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 BepiColombo spacecraft came within 183 miles (295 kilometers) of Mercury’s surface during its sixth and final flyby, the European Space Agency announced Thursday.

Pieces of Mercury may have been found on Earth, potentially allowing scientists to study the Solar System's innermost planet.

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the joint Mercury mission in 2018. The BepiColombo spacecraft was expected to fly less than 200 miles above the ...

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

The European Space Agency itself came to be in 1975 through a merger of ESRO and ELDO, ... ESA currently has missions planned for Mercury (BepiColombo, 2018) and Jupiter (JUICE, ...

BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA), will be only the second (and the most complex) mission in history to orbit Mercury.

BepiColombo carries two orbiters—one designed by the European Space Agency and the other by Japan—that will circle Mercury’s poles once it settles into orbit.