For the first time in more than 14 years, a spacecraft is headed toward Mercury — the smallest and innermost planet of our solar system. Known as BepiColombo, the spacecraft’s mission is to unravel ...

Humanity's next visitor to the solar system's innermost planet remains on track for April 2018, according to the project's scientist. The BepiColombo mission, being developed jointly by the European ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. A robotic ...

The European and Japanese mission BepiColombo has made its first flyby of Mercury, capturing images of the planet it will eventually be exploring in more depth. In order to get close to the planet, ...

Set for launch next year, the BepiColombo spacecraft is coming to the end of its test phase ahead of being shipped to Kourou, French Guiana in readiness to begin a journey to Mercury, opening with a ...

An Ariane 5 rocket rises from its launch pad in Kourou, French Guiana, sending the BepiColombo probe on the first leg of its journey to Mercury. (Arianespace via ...

The Oct. 19 launch of BepiColombo was Arianespace's seventh mission of the year and the 101st launch of an Ariane 5 rocket. Credit: Arianespace video still. WASHINGTON — A Mercury-bound science ...

If you were to ask anyone what they knew about Mercury, chances are you would be met with some pretty generic responses, such as how it’s the closest planet to the Sun, how the planet is quite small, ...

On October 20th of this year, the ESA will be launching a world-class scientific mission to Mercury. The mission is called BepiColombo and it is led by the ESA with the cooperation of JAXA this ...

The BepiColombo mission lifted off from the European spaceport in French Guiana at 03:45 Central European Summer time on 20 October 2018, on board an Ariane 5 launch vehicle. The mission consists of ...