In a lunar occultation, the Moon completely covers a star or planet as it moves across the sky. The object seem ...

In the past couple of months there have been several celestial events that have dazzled the night sky. For those who may have ...

As the moon will be only a day old, the occultation will be during the day ... at sunset one will be able to see Venus, Jupiter and Mars well above the horizon. Mercury is more challenging ...

On January 13, 2025, Mars will disappear behind the Moon in a rare lunar occultation, coinciding with Mars’ opposition. This event will be visible across the United States, parts of Canada ...

The waxing gibbous moon will pass red Mars in the northeast on the same evening, but no occultation for us this month. Instead this month, the occultation involves the earth’s shadow covering the full ...

A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with ...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

A space probe flying past Mars captured images of the red planet's small, mysterious moon. While on a flyby of Mars, Hera was able to use three of its imaging instruments to capture images of ...

The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...