European mission to Mercury just made its sixth flyby of the planet, revealing stunning close-ups of the permanently shadowed craters at Mercury's north pole.

The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

(AP) - A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury ... mathematician who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades ...

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.

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras ... Only two missions have reached Mercury before BepiColombo: NASA’s Mariner 10 flybys in the 1970s and MESSENGER, which orbited the ...

BepiColombo passed a mere 295 kilometers above Mercury's surface ... following NASA's Messenger mission in 2011. Captured by M-CAM-2, this image shows Nathair Facula, a bright spot at the top ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a ... during the day, according to NASA. But the planet lacks an atmosphere to hold that heat in — so, on Mercury, dark equals cold.

The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before passing directly over the planet's north pole. The European Space Agency ...