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 ...

NASA and other space agencies. 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 ...

But BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European and Japanese space agencies, seeks to change that. The spacecraft makes its sixth and final flyby on Jan. 8 before returning to enter orbit around ...

Scientists eagerly wait for further information when the BepiColombo (Joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) mission arrives at Mercury in 2030.

Credit: PSI/Deborah Domingue. NASA’s BepiColombo mission, a joint endeavor with the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will explore Mercury with a new suite of ...

This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018. The maneuver put the spacecraft on course to enter orbit around Mercury late next year.

Earth, Mars, and Venus lost most of their carbon to space or locked it in carbonates ... heavily on laboratory insight because no probe has yet peered inside Mercury. BepiColombo, a joint ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled ...

But drag doesn’t just slow down cars. Aerospace engineers are working on using the drag force in space to develop more fuel-efficient spacecraft and missions, deorbit spacecraft without creating ...

The Oracle-M spacecraft are specifically designed to track objects in cislunar space, the vast region between Earth and the moon. The U.S. Space Force tested new thrusters designed for satellites ...

An innovative approach for fully reusable spacecraft suggests making them "sweat" to survive the scorching heat during reentry to Earth's atmosphere, allowing them to land ready for another flight.