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, stars and Perseid meteor shower.

On Cruel Joke, Pomeroy, age 22, sings with an acoustic twang about farms and cowboys. The 92-year-old Nelson's Oh What a Beautiful World is an album of covers of songs by Rodney Crowell.

A seven-planet alignment happens in late-February, but it could be tricky to see it While all seven planets could appear in some form in parts of the U.S., not all of them will be visible to the ...

Deep-sky astrophotographers are in for a treat this month, with some of the most beautiful nebulae — and a globular cluster — at their best, though with the solstice on 20 June, astronomical ...

McDONOUGH, Ga. — An object bright enough to be seen streaking across the midday sky fell across parts of the Southeast U.S. on Thursday. The object was likely either a meteor or space junk, with ...

A meteoroid is a piece of rock that’s broken off an asteroid or comet in outer space. But once it enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it’s called a meteor. That’s what you saw moving through ...

But few of them stuck with me like Ambrosia Sky, and none hit me quite as hard in such a short time. I am excited to see what else Soft Rains has in store for us on the Cluster, but one thing is ...

Residents of Mexico City are pondering the out-of-nowhere blinding light in the sky. Around 3 a.m. Wednesday, April 16, Mexico's capital was illuminated by what appeared to be a fireball in the sky.