Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

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

Flying some 140 million miles to Mars is one of NASA's biggest plans so far and a space expert has revealed exactly how ...

Astronomy buffs, undeterred by cloudy skies and rain, managed to catch a glimpse of the planet Mars on the night of Jan 16, ...

Despite the cloudy skies and rain, some skygazers were able to catch a glimpse of Mars on Jan 16. Read more at ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the Red Planet’s two moons, to study how its orbit is changing over time.

NASA was formed in 1958 "to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere, and for ...

Mars's atmosphere and climate are impacted by interactions with solar wind, a stream of plasma comprised of protons and ...

(WIFR) - On the evening of Jan. 16, the sun, Mars and Earth will be in alignment. This puts Mars exactly opposite the sun, making our view of the red planet the brightest and most detailed it can get.

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

Mars has northern and southern hemispheres like Earth, but their defining characteristics are markedly different, a ...