After nearly eight years, a mission to reveal Mercury’s secrets is arriving at its destination. But what lies ahead will not ...

Mercury has been shrinking since it formed in our solar system's early days. New evidence, though, suggests it used to be ...

After nearly eight years traveling through the inner solar system, the trailblazing BepiColombo spacecraft has finally begun ...

On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the 3rd ...

Nothing like the controlled disassembly of BepiColombo has ever been attempted in such a harsh environment as the region of ...

The BepiColombo mission, by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, is only the third to study ...

It's the final countdown.

The joint European and Japanese BepiColombo Mercury mission that left Earth some eight years ago has finally entered its ...

BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury and the first to study the planet with two spacecraft.

Japanese BepiColombo mission will begin its drawn-out Mercury arrival phase on Sept. 3, and you can watch the action live.

Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth's Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the ...

Get the facts on Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. DISTANCE FROM THE SUN: 28,583,702 to 35,983,125 miles (46,001,200 to ...