Moon joins a planet and two stars. When it gets sufficiently dark, you'll also take notice of a rather bright yellow-orange star appearing just below the moon. That's not a star, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to Star Walk, the next "planet parade" When is the 7 planet alignment? Mercury to join in late-February. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are frequently seen in the night sky. But because Venus and ...

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 ...