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

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump said he wants 'American astronauts' on Mars. Where does a future Mars ...

PT5, a near-Earth object discovered last year, has captivated scientists with its potential lunar origins. Likely ejected ...

Deimos is Mars' outer moon. It's a tiny ... The other reason was that it orbits very close to Mars, so it's often caught in the planet's glare. The age of Deimos really depends on how it formed ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

Fresh from the excitement of this week’s Wolf Moon, there’s another treat in store for sky-watchers this week, with Mars ...

Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.

For a few months, Earth had a second moon — a tiny asteroid that may have been a piece of our own Moon ...

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth orbit for a few months last year may have an intriguing origin on our Moon.

In fact, Mars is nearly twice the size of the Moon, measuring a little over 4,200 ... Moon to move the distance of its own diameter as it orbits Earth. In comparison, an inch-long garden snail ...

Mars will begin rising at about 7.30pm on Jan 16, said the observatory, adding that it should be at an "easily appreciable ...