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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“The current behaviour of magnetic north is something that we have never observed before,” William Brown, a global geomagnetic field modeler at the British Geological Survey, said in a statemen ...

The mission, a collaboration between the European and Japanese space agencies, aims to provide unprecedented data about Mercury’s geological history, magnetic field, and poles. BepiColombo ...