The Red Planet reaches its best position all year this week on January 15. Here’s how and when to get out and see it.

Every 26 months, the orbits of Earth and Mars allow us a closer look when Mars is at opposition — which will happen on Jan.

Astronomical observatories use several techniques to compensate for distortions in images caused by our atmosphere.

The company has outlined its proposed architecture to return martian rock and dust samples to Earth for research.

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and watch the Full Moon pass in front of the Red Planet. Astronomers call such an event an occultation. Pretty much anyone in the continental U.S.

Astronomy can often give us clues to the past that are otherwise lost to history. In one case, an Italian astronomer has ...

Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

Extractable water near the south pole of our closest celestial neighbor promises a new spark for future space explorers.

The Red Planet comes closest to Earth, disappears behind the Moon in an occultation, and finally reaches opposition in the ...

The key NASA center remains under a mandatory evacuation order, but officials say both it and Mount Wilson are protected for ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.