BepiColombo now flies on a slimmer stack made of two orbiters and a sunshield. The change marks the end of the mission's long cruise and the start of its months‑long arrival phase as it closes in on ...

BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury and the first to study the planet with two spacecraft.

BepiColombo has begun its Mercury arrival phase after successfully separating its Mercury Transfer Module on Sept. 3, the European Space Agency says. The event ended the transfer module’s job of ...

BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, has experienced an issue that is preventing the spacecraft's thrusters from operating at full power. BepiColombo is a three-part spacecraft ...

After almost eight years of travel, BepiColombo has just abandoned the part of the spacecraft that carried it to Mercury’s doorstep. On September 3, the mission’s transfer module successfully ...

The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s ...

Mercury sat 63 million kilometres from the Sun and 200 million kilometres from Earth on Thursday, far enough that a signal from mission control took roughly 30 minutes to reach the spacecraft. This ...