Observations during two flybys by the Mio spacecraft as part of the BepiColombo International Mercury Exploration Project have revealed that chorus waves occur quite locally in the dawn sector of ...

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After ...

Later that decade, I helped write the first strategy for the scientific exploration of Mercury to follow that mission. For a variety of reasons, it took another two decades before the second mission ...

After spending nearly eight years crossing the inner Solar System, ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo spacecraft has reached one of ...

MINSK, 29 May (BelTA) - Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Vladimir Karanik praised the successes in the country’s space industry and its role in the ...

Since Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun among the solar system planets, it is strongly influenced by the solar wind, a high-speed (several hundred km/s) stream of plasma blowing from the Sun.