It'll be an active sky over several days in August 2025, with planets visible, meteor showers and nebulas popping up. Here's ...

With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

It's coming soon. Mark your calendar so you can catch Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus in the sky at the ...

Each evening throughout the month of August, we can see the planet Mars in the western sky after sunset. To find it, look for ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

The western half of the Western Hemisphere is expected to “see” the Black Moon starting before 12 a.m. on Aug. 22, according ...

The Moon stands 4° southeast of Mars on the following night, July 28. Look an hour after sunset, because now Mars is only 12° high in the western sky.

A final "gee-whiz" fact you can reveal to your friends is that what you are seeing in Monday's sky is an illusion of ...

In this edition of WTOP’s monthly space feature, “What’s up in the sky?” Greg Redfern tells you how to see the moon, planets, ...

Mars is well past its brightest point this year, but it remains a distinct, reddish dot in the twilight sky. The moon, meanwhile, will show Earthshine, a ghostly illumination of its night side ...

Acheron Fossae is filled with dramatic landscape features — most notably, its namesake fossae, or fault-like channels that ...

As we go through June, each night in the southeast around midnight, our galaxy, the Milky Way, rises. You’ll need a dark sky site to see the Milky Way and a clear view of the horizon.