Enjoy the Mars Triangle while it still lasts, for after mid-March it will be no more. We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between ...

Mars looks like it’s about to make ... magnitude describes how bright that object looks in the night sky, with the brightest stars being seen at a magnitude of 1, EarthSky reported.

Many never imagined that in order to find and study other stars it is necessary ... similar to Mars, some of them are the Tinto River in Spain, the Atacama Desert in Chile, the Mojave Desert ...

Observers could see up to seven planets line up in the sky after sunset on Friday, but you may need a telescope to see them ...

After Friday's spectacle, a "planet parade" of this size won't appear in the night sky for several years, experts say.

Nonprofit organization Mars Society uses the southern Utah desert to simulate what life will be like on Mars. For more than a decade, engineers and scientists have been going there hoping their ...

“The Martian” is the latest blockbuster to use Jordan’s Wadi Rum region as a stand-in for Mars. Because of the barren landscape and the reddish hue of the terrain, Mars movies like “Red ...

Credit: Joe Rao utilizing Starry Night Pro 8.0 software The brilliant yellow-orange light of Mars (magnitude –0.6) at the vertex. The orange-hued star Pollux (magnitude +1.15) and nearby white ...