The moon makes for an excellent guide to see Mars in the night sky tonight. As the sun sets this evening (Feb. 9), the moon will be shining brightly in the east, 93% illuminated in its waxing ...

Mars looks like it’s about to make a U-turn in the night sky – at least, from Earth it looks that way. Since Dec. 7, 2024, the red planet has been making its westerly retrograde. But on Monday ...

Meanwhile, glowing below the moon like an orange luminary in the dark of the night is not a star, but one of our planetary neighbors: Mars. Its relatively close proximity to the moon will no doubt ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war, has long been an omen in the night sky. And in its own way, the planet’s rusty red surface tells a story of destruction. Billions of years ...

Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter and Mars should all be visible in the night sky on Friday night, according to StarWalk, the website for the star-tracking app on mobile devices.

Another treat is in store for stargazers tonight (February 9) as the Moon and Mars will be sitting very close to each other in the night sky. The Moon's monthly movement around the sky often takes ...