The head of the European Space Agency dismissed concerns on Thursday that cooperation in Europe is dwindling as Italy charts ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter ...

The European Space Agency has released images the BepiColombo mission collected during its recent flight past Mercury when it ...

In 2026, the Bepicolombo Mercury Transfer Module will return to Mercury once again to release the ESA's Mercury Planetary ...

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." ...

The close-up images reveal craters, the floors of which are in permanent shadow, and vast sunlit northern plains.

Barely larger than our own Moon, Mercury orbits precariously close to the Sun at an average distance of roughly 58 million ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft has sent back some incredibly detailed images of Mercury’s north pole. The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet. You ...

The planetary pockmarks are known as some of the coldest places in the Solar System. The shivery situation is to be further ...

Recent science news highlights include ISRO's delayed space docking mission, a study on freshwater species extinction, and ...

NASA sees two paths for saving its beleaguered plan to retrieve materials from the Red Planet but won’t choose between them ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...