The spacecraft collected new data on Mercury using its Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer, or MERTIS. The ...

The BepiColombo Mercury probe flew close to our solar system's innermost planet this week, capturing another haunting image ...

It has, however, never looked at Mercury out of concerns about damaging its sensitive optics. On its seven-year journey to ...

BepiColombo completed its fifth flyby of Mercury. During this encounter, it became the first spacecraft to observe Mercury in mid-infrared light. These groundbreaking images revealed differences in ...

Venus and Mercury since 2020, use the planets' gravity to help put it on the right course to enter Mercury's orbit. BepiColombo made its first Earth and Venus flybys in 2020, and first swung past ...

Specifically, the team used MESSENGER observations to probe Mercury ' s spin and gravity. The results obtained indicate that, for the best match of the data, Mercury must have a large, solid inner ...