Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer as it attempts to take the highest-resolution images of our star ever.

The planet—the brightest object in the solar system after the sun and moon—has been visible ... of Venus as the bright “Evening Star” begins for real this month. It's becoming brighter ...

It’s now the third brightest object in the sky—after the Sun and the Moon ... it looks a little more than a bright white star, and only in telescopes can you see the changing phases of ...