A few hours after darkness falls during November, the unquestioned landmark of the autumn night sky occupies a commanding ...

Leonid meteors may appear whenever the constellation Leo is above the horizon. Heads up stargazers! The Leonid meteor shower ...

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

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

“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 ...

Astrophotography often misrepresents the naked-eye appearance of celestial colors, as cameras capture saturated colors unattainable by human vision due to limitations in photoreceptor sensitivity. The ...

Alligator Alcatraz is causing light pollution in one of the first designated "dark skies" in the eastern United States.

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 ...

Astrotourism continues to be one of the world's leading trends, and many travelers make big plans to cross oceans and ...