Perched atop the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii, the Gemini North Observatory is one of the world's most powerful windows into ...

Jupiter will reach its highest point in the sky around dawn, when, from mid-northern latitudes, it will appear about 20 ...

At around 10:00 p.m. local time on Sunday (Nov. 9), if you look low toward the east-northeast sky, you will see a waning ...

Comprehensive guide to November 2025 night sky events, including visible planets Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury, the year’s brightest supermoon and peak meteor showers.

Hello everyone. You’ve probably noticed that it’s getting dark a lot earlier than it was and this Tuesday marked the earliest ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

Look to the east after sunset on a clear winter night and you’ll spot a bright, tightly packed collection of stars. That’s ...

Dwarf planet Ceres reached its stationary point on August 15th, transitioning from eastward to westward motion relative to background stars, observable in the morning sky. On August 16th, a Last ...

Mercury and the star Mebsuta are visible in the west after sunset. Mars will be very close to the star Regulus on June 16th. Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is visible in Leo with a medium to large ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered that the famous Pleiades star cluster, the ...