Earth is going back to Mercury. BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European and Japanese space agencies, set off from a launchpad in French Guiana aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on a humid and mostly ...

BepiColombo is set to begin its long journey to one of the least studied of Earth's seven neighboring planets. It is hoped the probe will offer insights into how our solar system was formed. A ...

FILE PHOTO: The spacecraft BepiColombo is seen at the European Space Agency's (ESA) European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands July 6, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Kooren ...

The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a payload of two orbiters, has sent us its first image from space. The image was ...

In November 2026, the BepiColombo probe is scheduled to enter orbit around Mercury. The scientific objectives of the mission are to study Mercury's surface, the influence of the solar wind, the planet ...

On Thursday April 9, Earth will be greeted by a longtime friend in the skies. The European Space Agency’s (ESA) spacecraft BepiColombo will do its first and only flyby of our planet on the night of ...