The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo, a 20th century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the ...

at the space agency's Annual Press Briefing on Thursday morning. The six flybys of Mercury are a prelude to the spacecraft entering a polar orbit of the planet, which is when its actual mission ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission from the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity ...

the spacecraft passed within just 180 miles of Mercury’s surface, enabling it to capture close-up images of the planet. It passed the planet’s night side, which faces out into space and away ...

A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the ... The sixth BepiColombo mission — launched by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...

The capsule that will one day ferry Indian astronauts to space and return them to Earth has been fitted with the key ...

The spacecraft holds two orbiters, one for Europe and the other for Japan, that will circle the planet's poles. This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's ...

The European Space Agency released the stunning ... kilometers).This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018. The maneuver put the ...