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This remarkable event occurred on December 1, 2024, when the spacecraft was approximately 48,000 to 53,700 kilometers from Mercury's surface.

Credit: ESA Using its monitoring cameras (M-CAM 1), BepiColombo got its first close-up view of the boundary that separates the day and night side of Mercury.

A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometres) above Mercury ...

These images also contain a striking view of Bashō Crater, an impact crater previously photographed by the Mariner 10 (1974-1975) and Messenger (2011-2015) spacecraft. RELATED STORIES: ...

From monitoring Mercury to launching a new adventure to an icy moon of Jupiter, spacecraft and astronauts made great strides in 2024. Here are some of the highlights of this year in space.

A mockup of the capsule will go on view until the actual one, which is still in use, gets decommissioned. National Air and Space Museum ...

The spacecraft offered a clear view of Mercury's south pole while completing its fourth of six flybys. ESA / BepiColombo / MTM A joint European-Japanese spacecraft has made its closest flyby of ...

Launched in 2018 along with Japanese space agency JAXA, the spacecraft is preparing to go into orbit around Mercury in 2026, when it will perform up-close analysis of the planet’s surface ...

The view of Mercury’s south pole is a preview of what is to come, as BepiColombo is expected to collect better data of the southern hemisphere than did NASA’s Messenger spacecraft, which the ...