Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...

July’s predawn sky offers some rare events, providing another reason to get outdoors to enjoy the relatively cool mornings.

The only evening planet for July is Mars, faint red in the west at dusk, and getting lost in the Sun’s glare by August. High ...

Mars, the planet that ... Following the 26th of July, Venus will produce entirely positive results. It is expected that the transit of Saturn will occur in the eighth house, which is located within ...

NASA was to supply some critical technologies for the mission, which Europe may not be able to readily replace.

What we are seeing when looking at the Milky Way is the combined light of vast numbers of stars located thousands of light years from our Solar System ... to the left of Venus. Jupiter and Venus will ...

So we really need to get serious about regular sample returns from across the solar system. There’s Mars, Venus, comets, and of course lunar sample returns. These are all things we should be taking a ...

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

One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Located 1,600 metres above sea-level on the peak of a mountain in Chile is an observatory that houses the world’s largest digital camera ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...