If you spied a fiery red star close to the full moon earlier this month, it was actually Mars shining its bright red light in the night sky. The planet will be visible at night throughout October, ...

This will occur Friday, and everyone in the world can watch, weather permitting. Earth and Mars align with the sun in opposition about once every two years. But truly jaw-dropping midnight views of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Now's the time to catch Mars in the night sky. The red planet is making its closest approach to Earth in 15 years. The two planets will be just 35.8 million miles (57.6 ...

Look up this week to get a glimpse of Mars, it’s making a “close approach” of Earth right now. On October 13, the Earth is directly in the middle of the sun and Mars. Mars is traveling close to the ...

After the sun, moon and Venus, the solar system giant Jupiter is usually the fourth-brightest object in the night sky. But for the last few weeks, Mars has been overtaking Jupiter as the ...

Physicists found that clocks on Mars will tick 477 microseconds (millionths of a second) faster than on Earth per day, on average.

"A three-body problem is extremely complicated. Now we're dealing with four: the sun, Earth, the moon and Mars. The heavy lifting was more challenging than I initially thought." When you purchase ...