But in 2023, BepiColombo soared in for a second flyby, capturing ghostly terrain and unexpected anomalies in its magnetosphere. The probe’s cameras picked up something odd near one crater.

BELA is a laser altimeter that will measure the planet's topography globally, including the first altitude measurements of the Southern Hemisphere. From distances of up to 1400 kilometers from Mercury ...

active missions like the European Space Agency's BepiColombo to Mercury, and proposed future NASA missions like DAVINCI and VERITAS to Venus. Therefore, what are the most significant takeaways ...

Examples include ESA's planetary missions BepiColombo (to Mercury) and JUICE (to Jupiter), the PLATO space telescope (scheduled for launch at the end of 2026) and the environmental instruments DESIS ...

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The year will kick off with the maiden voyage of New Glenn, a heavy-lift rocket built by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin.

The discovery leans heavily on laboratory insight because no probe has yet peered inside Mercury. BepiColombo, a joint European–Japanese mission cruising toward the planet, will slip into orbit in ...

The origin of high-energy cosmic rays that travel through space and reach Earth is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in astrophysics. Recently, black hole X-ray binaries, consisting of a black ...

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