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

Venus reaches its highest altitude above the eastern horizon in 2025 on Aug. 1. Venus will reach its highest altitude in the ...

Beginning around Aug. 12 and continuing through at least Aug. 26, the innermost planet, Mercury, will poke above the east-northeast horizon about 45 to 90 minutes before sunrise and will be evident ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

The night sky tonight and on any clear night offers an ever-changing display of fascinating objects you can see, from stars ...

Skywatchers are in for a month full of cosmic activity this August. Here’s what to know about the upcoming planetary alignment.

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

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

It’s hard to beat a summer night beneath the stars, especially in August, when the shimmery Milky Way core is at its ...

As the month wears on, Jupiter and Venus will move apart from each other. One more date to keep in mind will be Aug. 20. Although Venus and Jupiter will now be eight degrees apart, the slender ...

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.

August’s full moon is the Sturgeon Moon, a name taken from the ancient fish that was once plentiful in the lakes and rivers ...