On Sunday (Dec. 1), BepiColombo made its fifth of six flybys of Mercury. On this most recent rendezvous, the probe was 200 times farther from the planet than on its previous flyby, which saw it come ...

BepiColombo completed its fifth flyby of Mercury. During this encounter, it became the first spacecraft to observe Mercury in ...

The spacecraft has been flying by Earth, 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 ...

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 ...