Mars is about to pass behind a full cold moon in an occultation Wednesday night that can be seen across a large portion of North America and Europe.. Mars' occultation is essentially an eclipse of ...

Mere hours before Mars stands at opposition in the sky, the Moon will occult the Red Planet for many in the U.S. Here's how and when to watch.

The Griffith Observatory in California had a great view of the Mars-Moon occultation. See the Red Planet slip behind the moon ...

David J. Kim saw Mars peeking from behind the moon from Newtown, Pennsylvania. Advertisement Kim shot the scene with a Fuji X-T5 and Fujinon XF 150-600mm lens, captured at f8/600mm and f11/840mm ...

Astro Bob: Mars hides behind the moon … again! Elsewhere we'll see a very close conjunction. On Dec. 7, 2022, the full moon covered (occulted) Mars for more than an hour as seen from Duluth, Minn.

Look for them around 10 p.m. local daylight time, roughly one-quarter up in the western sky. In addition to their closeness to each other, look for the orange-gold of Mars and blue-white of Regulus to ...

Space watchers will be able to witness an extraordinary Mars lunar occultation at the end of the month. On Monday, January 30, the Moon will sidle up close to the Red Planet.

Mars begins to disappear behind the crescent moon at the beginning of the occultation on Feb. 18, 2020. Astrophotographer B.G. Boyd captured this view from Tucson, Arizona. (Image credit: Courtesy ...

If you want to see magic happen in the heavens, you’ll get that opportunity next Tuesday when the moon makes Mars disappear and reappear 80 minutes later.