The BepiColombo spacecraft may have only made rapid flybys of Mercury, but it is already helping to unravel mysteries surrounding the closest planet to the sun. In 2026, a European Space Agency ...

The rocket will deliver into space the spacecraft of the BepiColombo mission ... Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for planet Mercury exploration. The launch was broadcast live on JAXA's ...

The BepiColombo Structural Thermal Model will become the centrepiece for events that will be held at the museum to mark key milestones in the progress of the European mission to Mercury A near ...

Space exploration often reveals unexpected surprises. In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission collected information about the planet's magnetic field. These observations ...

Lawrence says the plan is to take a lot of high-resolution images of the planned impact area in advance, so that when BepiColombo arrives in Mercury orbit, its two spacecraft will be able to see t ...

and Genesis missions and is currently a science team member on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa2 asteroid sample return mission and the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. He received the ...

Artist's representation of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flying through precipitating electrons that can trigger X-ray auroras on the surface of Mercury.

MERTIS (MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer) is a scientific instrument for ESA's BepiColombo deep-space mission. BepiColombo was launched to Mercury in 2018 and has been observing ...

They anticipate new data from the BepiColombo mission, expected in 2026, to enhance their understanding of Mercury’s internal structure and evolution. The study was published in Nature ...