The planets offer exciting views in April. Jupiter is a brilliant object in the evening sky, although the observing window ...

The Astronomical League lists the times across the country when the occultation ... "opposition", this month. This is when Mars, Earth and the sun align such that Earth lies directly between ...

30 shows the potato-shaped moon Phobos passing in front of the orange disk of the sun. Just like with a solar eclipse on Earth, Phobos cast a shadow onto Mars as it transited across the face of ...

"We have known for a long time that Mars had lakes and rivers, but many people suspect that temperatures were still quite cold, given Mars' distance from the sun," geologist professor Roger Wiens ...

Since the moon measures roughly one-half degree across, you would think that Mars ... constellation of Cancer the Crab. Because Mars soon comes to eastern quadrature — 90 degrees east of the sun — on ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Based on their findings, Wright and colleagues estimated that Mars’ crust could hold the equivalent of 0.62 to 1.24 miles (1 to 2 kilometers) of water if it were spread evenly across the planet ...

THE UK has completed the build of its first-ever Mars rover, designed to search for signs of alien life on the Red Planet in 2030. It is a landmark feat for the UK, and will be the first ...