Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

The spacecraft is named for the late Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo, a 20th-century Italian mathematician who contributed to NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later ...

Scientists were astonished when the Mariner 10 spacecraft sent evidence of a global magnetic field enveloping Mercury. Space missions to the outer planets have revealed global magnetism on Jupiter ...