The Red Planet and the moon visit the Cancer constellation, the Crab. The moon and Mars will share a close approach in the ...

This week, the night sky will dazzle stargazers with a rare cosmic alignment as Mars and the Moon come together for a ...

The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, ...

Learn how you can see bright Jupiter from Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops, in December's ...

The essential ingredient for life, water, appeared on both planets around 4.4 billion years ago, new research indicates.

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

The moon and Mars will fall in a rare conjunction tonight, the white waning gibbous and the rusty Red Planet making for a ...

Back in 2007, I talked with Rob Manning, engineer extraordinaire at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and he told me something shocking. Even though he had successfully led the entry, descent, and ...

What makes this conjunction especially exciting is how bright Mars will appear in the night sky. The planet has been relatively faint all year but is becoming steadily brighter the closer Earth gets ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

Right in the middle of its apparent backwards motion in the night sky the red planet will come to its biannual “opposition” when, in early December, Mars is at its closest to Earth and ...