First, let’s start with the good news. As with August stargazing any year, there’s still plenty of summer and great summer ...

Hoping to push Mars exploration into top gear and do recon for a future crewed landing, AeroVironment has released its ...

Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

Words by Ambar Ramirez and Carmen Macri Aries You could literally cut the tension with a knife this month, Aries. You feel like you’re being pulled in opposite directions, and it’s only a matter of ...

It's the first time in 15 years that the southern face of Saturn's rings will reach a tilt of 3". It will be visible through ...

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

The astrology forecast for August 2025 brings the end of Mercury retrograde and some of the year's luckiest alignments, ...

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.

What if the next breakthrough in clean energy came not from wind or sunlight, but from the cold, dark silence of outer space? . Radiolysis Revolution: Cosmic Rays, Power and Underground Life Inspires ...

Neptune and Saturn appear together in a telescope as Mars passes a star in Virgo and Titan’s shadow transits Saturn in the ...

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

The moon is new on August 23. Back in the evening sky, the thin crescent moon will pass three degrees south of Mars in the ...