A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe. The ...

Europe's BepiColombo mission has returned its first pictures of Mercury, the Solar System's ... The European and Japanese elements of the mission will separate when they get into orbit at Mercury ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only the second human survey of our solar system's innermost planet. The ...