The bright moon is about to host some special guests in the night sky: On two nights this week, you'll have the opportunity ...

If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you can catch a "mini planet parade" as Mars and Jupiter appear alongside a half-lit moon in the southwestern sky. To see them, look high in the sky ...

The glowing veils of the aurora appear regularly in the sky above Earth and make for great images, but capturing this phenomenon on other planets has always been more of a challenge. Recent ...

In the depth of winter, a sweeping view of our solar system will glow in the night sky. In total six planets will be visible, four of them to the naked eye - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.VIDEO ...

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A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

It’s a long way from Tempe to Jupiter, but a thermal camera built at Arizona State University is on its way. First though, it made a crucial detour at Mars, millions of miles from the quiet lab where ...

Like a celestial parade across the cosmos, five bright planets are lighting up the night sky and visible with the naked eye all February long — with two other planets also detectable for skywatchers ...

Stargazers will have the opportunity to view as many as seven planets in the night sky this month during an event that's sometimes called a "parade of planets" because the celestial bodies appear to ...

February might be our shortest month, but it’s far from bleak. The winter night sky will be beckoning us to look up all month long. In January, we were treated to a “Planet Parade” of four bright ...