There’s nothing more exhilarating than catching a glimpse of outer space, especially if you’re a fellow stargazer! Mark your calendars, because with March well underway, now’s the perfect time to look ...

We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between December's winter ...

On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ...

The Martian forecast will almost always include a red sky, but a recent panorama captured by NASA’s rover Perseverance shows what a blue sky would look like on the Red Planet. Iron in the dust on Mars ...

Something new for the Martian tourist brochures: You might get to see auroras. In March 2024, for the first time, scientists observed a visible green aurora on Mars. Although scientists had already ...

As the bright star Regulus and the Beehive Cluster shine close by. The moon will appear to skip over Mars between the nights of May 31 and June 1, appearing to grow ever larger ahead of its first ...

It's time for a quick science lesson. It takes the planet Mars 1.9 Earth years to complete one orbit of the sun. Every 26 months or so, the Earth and Mars pass close to each other. However, Mars has a ...

When those particles reached the planet, they triggered a rare aurora in Mars's upper atmosphere. Unlike past detections of Martian auroras, which appeared only in ultraviolet light and required ...

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset on Jan. 27, 2023, the 3,724th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Studying the colors in iridescent clouds ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere). Check my main feed for more in-depth articles ...

Created in 2000 by Bezos, Amazon's founder, Blue Origin already holds a NASA contract for the third moon landing by astronauts under the Artemis program. Musk’s SpaceX beat out Blue Origin for the ...