On Monday night you may have a chance to witness the moon obscuring the Red Planet at its brightest, as well as a comet’s ...

Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

G3 may be hard to see due to weather patterns and the California wildfires, said Tim Brothers of the Massachusetts Institute ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

If you’re keen to see comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) one more time then this weekend brings a treat when the green guest from the outer solar system appears to pay a visit to the red planet. Mars has ...

Comet ATLAS hit a maximum magnitude of -3.4 during its close encounter with the sun, just shy of the brightness of Venus in ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has collected its 24th sample of Jezero Crater. The 'Comet Geyser' sample is "great for biosignature studies," according to the space agency's Jet Propulsion ...

If the comet is a no-show, there's another reason for stargazing that night: the full moon will move between Earth and its view of Mars, making the two glow brightly together in the sky.

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

it will also pass in front of the more-brilliantly-red-than-usual Mars in an event known as a lunar occultation. But that’s not all January’s sky has to offer. A new comet, expected to be the ...