The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Venus, Jupiter and Mars will dazzle in the night sky this month, giving stargazers of all levels a great show. The three ...

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

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

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Read A sky chart showing Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus in a "planet parade." Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech On most ...

See Venus, Jupiter, and more in the evening sky this week. Astronomy Editor Dave Eicher explains where and when to look.

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

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars and constellations to bright planets, the moon, and sometimes special ...

'Planet parade' isn't a technical term in astronomy but it is one widely used to describe the alignments of planets. The ...

As evening falls, look to the west to see a beautiful conjunction of a waxing crescent moon close to Venus, the brightest planet in the sky. Look “Earthshine”—sunlight reflected off Earth ...