Mars is visible all night and stands high in the east at sunset, located in central Gemini. It forms a nice triangle with Gemini’s brightest stars, Castor and Pollux. The Red Planet shines at ...

The vernal equinox occurs as Mercury stands still in Pisces and several of Jupiter’s moons transit in the sky this week.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, February 28Venus is a prominent fixture in the evening sky, still hanging on at magnitude –4.8 and setting nearly three hours after the ...

Trump's former "yes man" and national security advisor John Bolton, harshly condemned Trump for his foreign policy blunder and warned Americans that Trump's foreign policy may be costlier for the ...

A thin band of white light traces the curve of Earth’s atmosphere, marking the boundary between our planet and the infinite ... Way glowing faintly in the background. “The blue-purple emission ...

"Mars is still the Red Planet. It’s just that our understanding of why Mars is red has been transformed." Mars is widely known for its iconic rusty red color — many people even refer to it as ...

"We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet ... white paper. If anything happens to the crew’s equipment ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

Ferrihydrite typically forms quickly in the presence of cool water and so must have formed early on ancient Mars when the planet was still wet. "We are not the first to consider ferrihydrite as ...

“I think the soonest would be 2029” when man lands on Mars, according to Musk. Then, over two decades of moving people and supplies to the red planet ... to Musk’s background, including ...

Mars has long been known as the Red Planet, with its fiery hue making it easily recognisable in the night sky. But what if scientists have been wrong about the reason why Mars is red? In a ...