Discover why Earth's farthest distance from the sun coincides with summer heat, then grab your binoculars for a week of ...

NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission arrived on Mars and began transmitting images from the surface of the Red Planet. The rover, ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has shared its skywatching highlights - revealing what will light up the sky in July ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

One of the great unsolved problems in modern planetary science is written on the surface of Mars. Mars has canyons that were ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

Mars appears low in our western sky for an hour or two after sunset.  Spotting it will be made easier if binoculars are used.

In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...

The night sky in July a phenomenon that reminds skywatchers how remarkable it is just to be alive and to experience such ...

Mercury is notoriously difficult to see from Earth, thanks to its proximity to the Sun. But on July 4, Mercury reaches its ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.