By 6:30 p.m. local time Mars is 40 degrees above the northwestern horizon in the constellation Leo. Closer to the horizon is Mercury which, as in the Northern Hemisphere, is a challenge to observe, ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 18Mars remains close to Sigma (σ) Leonis, Leo the Lion's back foot, in the evening sky for several days. Shining at magnitude 1.5, ...

The planet Mars spends the month of June moving through the constellation of Leo. On June 16 the Red Planet passes to the north of the bright blueish Leo star Regulus.

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between the moon and Mars.

Mars has now crossed the border from Cancer into Leo, standing in the far western regions of the Lion’s domain. The Red Planet is visible after sunset this evening, slowly sinking in the west ...

The Moon doesn’t rise until late tonight, leaving a dark window after sunset to explore the sky. Back in Leo in the west this evening, you might try your luck with Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann ...

Each of the three massive stars that make up the Spring Triangle - Spica, Arcturus and Regulus - belongs to a different constellation in the night sky. Orange-hued Arcturus can be found high above ...

Dubbed the "best meteor shower of the year" by NASA, the Perseids are about to appear over Australia tonight - here's how to ...

And this week, Chris McGrew has shared a photo of WR 134—a variable Wolf-Rayet star about 6,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus—which he captured from a dark sky ...