BepiColombo is operated by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ().The probe launched in 2018 atop an Ariane 5 ...

BepiColombo: Mercury Stumps Scientists, but This Mission Could Finally Unravel Its Mysteries Published May 17, 2018 at 12:28 PM EDT Updated May 18, 2018 at 3:31 AM EDT By ...

Scientists have observed whether the meteorites can reach Earth from Mercury. Over thousands of meteorites from Mars and the ...

BepiColombo's initial course after three days of orbiting the Earth for checkouts will be an elliptical orbit about the sun. This will begin by taking it inside the Earth's orbit.

BepiColombo’s chemical thrusters will stabilize the orbit gradually and, after traveling 5.5 billion miles (8.9 billion km), the mission will at last be underway.

BepiColombo will be only the second mission in history to orbit Mercury, the scorched rocky planet close to the sun. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

BepiColombo made its sixth and final flyby of Mercury on Wed (Jan. 8) capturing images of the tiny planet hinting at the mysteries it will soon investigate.

During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field. This field forms a protective magnetic bubble around Mercury and guards the ...

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on August 10th, 2021.

Now BepiColombo is heading back into the solar system before aiming to arrive in orbit around Mercury in November 2026. Then the spacecraft’s main camera will be unshielded and it will take ...

BepiColombo made its first Earth and Venus flybys in 2020, and first swung past Mercury on Oct. 1, 2021. After one flyby in 2022 and 2023 each, the probe then made close approaches to Mercury on ...