The lights appear within what is known as an aurora oval, a belt that roughly rings the Earth’s geomagnetic poles, said ...
The spacecraft first flew over the planet's cold and dark night side before transitioning to the sunlit northern regions.
A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos ever of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic ...
The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury’s night side before ...
Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet ...
The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of ...
The images, captured on January 6 by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA’s Aqua ...