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 ...

One of history’s most infamous coding mistakes—an absent hyphen—led to the destruction of NASA’s Mariner 1 spacecraft just moments after launch, costing the agency a staggering $18.5 million.