How can we successfully collect and return samples from Mercury and Venus to Earth? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a pair ...

On Saturday and Sunday, the Earth will have an inferior conjunction (closest approach) with Venus, the sixth-largest planet in our solar system and the second-closest to the sun. The planet might ...

Venus could make a brief appearance this weekend as it passes between the Earth and the sun ... from the sun and the sixth largest in our solar system, is due for its next inferior conjunction ...

Venus Passes Between the Earth and Sun This Weekend -- but Don't Try to Look for It NEW YORK (AP) — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior ...