A superbright Mars is currently visible alongside Regulus, the "Heart of the Lion" star located around 79 light-years from ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What ...

Stargazing in July hopefully promises warm nights in Wyoming. The highlight of July evenings is the prominent band of the Milky Way arcing across the dark skies. Along the Milky Way, you’ll spot the ...

On June 25, the sun in Cancer will form a productive sextile to Mars in Virgo, creating a perfect synergy for revelatory ...

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young ...

NOAA's GOES-16 satellite captured the sun blast a "huge rush of mass" that warped the magnetic field, according to the ...

The team behind NASA's 19-year-old Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been busy teaching an old spacecraft new tricks, ...

Mars shining like a red star in the night sky, alongside the blue-tinged star Regulus. These two celestial bodies, though ...

Starting around 9 p.m., look to the western sky for Mars. The bright star Regulus, in the constellation Leo, will help guide ...

The Red Planet stands less than a degree from Leo the Lion’s brightest star in the evening sky tonight, visible in the west.

In reality, the reddish color of Mars comes from iron oxide in the rocks and dust covering its surface. Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin.