Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The BepiColombo spacecraft has captured stunning new photos of Mercury's alien surface, from its icy craters to its sun-baked ...

This image of Mercury's surface was taken by M-CAM 1 on board the Mercury Transfer Module (part of the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration time of 40 milliseconds. Taken from around 787 km, ...

NASA's hardest working probe has finally run out of fuel, and will meet a tragic fate as it crashes into the planet Mercury on April 30. See the amazing photos this probe shared with us in its very ...

This striking view of Mercury is located near the rim of the large Caloris basin. The rim of Caloris is marked by hills and mountains, some of which can be seen in the distance in this image. Image ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury showing northern plains taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A spacecraft has ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury’s north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole as part of only ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again that humankind has a seemingly insatiable longing to understand the universe. The ...

This image provided by European Space Agency shows close-up photos of Mercury's north pole taken by the European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo. (European Space Agency via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.