Putting the brakes on in the vacuum of space is no easy feat. The careful choreography of swinging around planets is a way ...

European Space Agency drops stunning first images of tiny Mercury as BepiColombo spacecraft zooms by, reaching within just ...

The 80 m 2 (860 sq ft) Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) successfully spread its sails last week. The spacecraft ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has successfully completed its fourth of six gravity assist flybys at Mercury, capturing ...

The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA. “We have a liftoff,” the narrator ...

Nations and companies are ramping up their efforts to deploy the first satnav on the moon to support a flurry of planned ...

Those of you following the Advanced Composite Solar Sail System may have heard that its booms and sail are now deployed.

BepiColombo approached Mercury from the planet’s nightside, with the Sun illuminating its cratered surface as the spacecraft ...

Teams from across ESA and industry have worked continuously over the past four months to overcome a glitch that prevented ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft, on Wednesday, successfully completed its fourth flyby of Mercury. This mission, a collaboration ...

ESA is adjusting the trajectory of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, delaying its orbital insertion by nearly a year to ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) on a H-IIA rocket from ...