But Mars lingers, drifting on a course toward Regulus, the brightest star in Leo, the lion. Mars is getting pretty dim, but ...

Starting tonight and continuing for two weeks, we can watch the moon travel from just past new moon all the way to full moon.

Simply look to the western sky after sunset. The delicate form of the crescent moon is set to draw close to the planet ...

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

A reddish star is about to pass through a "beehive" of stars. That "star" is actually one of Earth's planetary neighbors.

The new moon occurs April 27, and a day later Venus and Saturn will make a close approach to each other (known as a ...

Perhaps the best known of all comets is Halley, correctly pronounced so that it rhymes with rally, not daily. It is named after the 17th-18th century astronomer Edmond Halley. This ...

Is it possible to colonise Mars? In 1964, Nasa’s uncrewed Mariner 4 spacecraft made its first successful fly-by of Mars. Then, in July 1976, a craft (Viking 1) made the first successful landing ...

With their latest album Lucro Sucio; Los Ojos Del Vacio out now, The Mars Volta will be touring in support of the new release later this year. Spanning 25 stops throughout the U.S. and Canada, The ...

Clouds of water ice can be seen drifting over ancient volcanoes on Mars. But billions of years ago, the surface was more temperate. Rock samples could tell us whether it supported ancient life.

As the night sky unfolds, a subtle yet captivating smudge of stars emerges high above at sunset. Known as the Beehive Cluster ...

LOS ANGELES — NASA wants to put boots on Mars in the coming decades. But before the first astronauts take that historic step, scientists are warning about an overlooked threat that could derail these ...