In June 2023, during its flyby of Mercury, the BepiColombo mission collected information about the planet's magnetic field.

The BepiColombo spacecraft may have only made rapid flybys of Mercury, but it is already helping to unravel mysteries surrounding the closest planet to the sun. In 2026, a European Space Agency ...

Why is Mercury so unusually dense? Why does it have a magnetic field, but the Moon doesn’t? How does the solar wind change the planet’s geology? Bepi-Colombo aims to address these questions ...

is there a magnetic field there, and, ultimately, what is this planet made of. The MTM packs three monitoring cameras called M-CAMs, which have already been used during five flybys of Mercury to ...

Aurorae the result of charged particles—electrons, protons or ions—being accelerated along a planet’s magnetic field lines. The evidence for aurora on Mercury comes from a flyby of the ...

its atmosphere and magnetosphere (and how it interacts with the solar wind), and the origin of Mercury’s magnetic field. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

These orbiters will focus on mapping Mercury's surface, analyzing its magnetic field, and studying its polar regions in detail.

The reversal could actually have a beneficial effect on Earth. The sun is on the verge of a significant event: a magnetic field reversal. The sun undergoes such a reversal every 11 years ...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.