That said, 21 January 2025 is said to be the best date to view the spectacular alignment as this is when all planets visible in the line have the smallest arc on the sky. The moon will also be in its ...
Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, residing just 36 million miles from our Solar System’s center. However, not too far above its surface, the European Space Agency’s BepiColombo probe has taken ...
Bepi took a great picture of Mercury’s terminator – the line between night and day – showcasing craters Prokofiev, Kandinsky, ...
A spacecraft making its final flyby of Mercury has captured incredible images. BepiColombo spacecraft made its sixth pass of ...
A recent study from the University of Michigan investigated the impact of proton radiation — a major threat in space — on ...
This is the third time a spacecraft has visited Mercury in the history of space exploration. BepiColombo’s three monitoring ...
Europe's first spacecraft to be sen to Mercury, BepiColombo, ended its slingshot maneuvers and took its last photos of the ...
Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.
We are in store for an unusual celestial treat in January when six planets line up in the night sky across Texas.
On January 8, 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its sixth flyby of Mercury, flying just 295 km above the ...
The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.