The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA’s car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours. “After flying more than eight months and 350 ...

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 ...

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Perhaps you’ve already noticed the dazzling red dot dancing in the night sky. That’s Mars, our planetary neighbor. And for the past few weeks it has been growing brighter as it slowly approaches a ...

Skywatchers will see both Mars and Uranus in the same field of view overnight using a pair of binoculars. Here's how to spot the planetary pair. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun its final approach to the red planet after activating a sequence of commands designed to get the spacecraft successfully into orbit. The sequence began ...

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LOS ANGELES -- The wandering of the planets brings Mars closer to Earth this month than at any time in nearly 60,000 years. It will be a last-chance proposition for all alive today: Mars won't be as ...

A rare interstellar comet — only the third ever confirmed to enter our solar system — was photographed last week, closely approaching Mars, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The images taken on ...

Call it an unfortunate coincidence. Indian scientists are concerned their Mars probe may arrive about the same time a comet blasts past the Red Planet. There's worry that the methane in the comet's ...