Stunning pictures of Mercury have been published revealing the sunlit plains and possibly icy craters of the smallest planet in the solar system.

The spacecraft’s suite of science instruments will reveal the invisible about the solar system’s most mysterious planet, to better understand the origin and evolution of a planet close to its ...

A spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has made its final flyby of Mercury, as scientists now work to guide BepiColombo into the planet’s orbit.