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

These dark regions could contain water ice, and investigating this possibility is a major aim for the mission. M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury’s north pole, with the ...

Venus may be grabbing all of the headlines, but the craters of Mercury's north pole region star in the latest stunning images from the $1.8 billion BepiColumbo mission. Flying just 183 miles (295 ...

The pictures show Mercury's biggest impact crater, as well as a mysterious, boomerang-shaped lava flow. A third image shows Nathair Facula, a light-colored region left behind by volcanic eruptions ...

These pictures of Mercury’s pockmarked surface are the last we’ll see before the BepiColombo mission begins orbiting the solar system’s innermost world in late 2026. Since launching in 2018 ...