Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

conjunction on Jan. 18. This Monday night you can watch the full “Wolf Moon” rise to occult Mars. Then you can see the red planet at its biggest, brightest and best for over two years.

As the two planets travel along their orbital paths, Earth will be between Mars and the sun. The red planet will shine brightly each evening, according to NASA. Look for it in the east each night ...

As Curiosity makes its way across the landscape ... by about 40 minutes. Because Mars is farther away than Earth, the sun looks twice as small. At night, the dark sky reveals two small misshapen ...

But every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars allow us a closer look at the Red Planet when Mars is at opposition - which will happen on the night of ... of the martian landscape, which ...

UK astrophotographer Josh Dury on night-sky success, his passion for documenting natural skies, a brand-new book and an ...

Space fans across much of the US can witness the event as it happens in the night sky. On Monday, Mars will look reddish and bright as the moon passes in front of it, obscuring the planet for over ...

February’s night sky gives us the bright trio of Mars, Jupiter and Venus, according to NASA skywatch experts. “Venus blazes ...

The earliest observations merely tracked its path through the night ... landscape that were almost certainly carved by running water. From this and other evidence, scientists can conclude that ...