Spacecraft beams back riveting photos after buzzing Mercury’s north pole
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...
Mercury may have frozen water in craters, spacecraft flyby reveals
Ice, ice, baby — too cold, too cold. A recent spacecraft flyby over Mercury has experts believing that the planet closest to ...
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BepiColombo spacecraft flies by Mercury, sees volcanic plain and impact craters
BepiColombo just imaged Mercury in a whole new light — mid-infrared light, to be precise. On the spacecraft's fifth flyby of Mercury earlier this month (out of a planned six flybys) BepiColombo ...
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The Fastest Spacecraft Ever Heads for Its Close-Up With the Sun
The bright object near the center of the image is Mercury, and the dark spots are ... the Parker Solar Probe, a NASA spacecraft, will pass within 3.8 million miles of the sun’s surface, more ...
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Asteroid-Hunting NASA Spacecraft to Slingshot Around Earth Tonight. Watch It Live
Earlier this week, the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo spacecraft flew by Mercury for the fifth time, as the agency plans for the spacecraft’s arrival in the planet’s orbit in November 2026.
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NASA probe beams home 1st detailed update after record-breaking flyby of sun: "Data scientists have awaited for decades"
The spacecraft confirmed its systems and instruments are "healthy and operating normally," NASA said in an update released Thursday, a week after the probe passed within a record-breaking 3.8 ...