Join us on a guided telescope tour of August's moon, featuring distinct targets for each of the four major lunar phases.

The two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, have a close meetup over several days, appearing closest over two days on ...

Perseids are known for their bright fireballs and plentiful meteors. The show started on July 17, and will run through Aug.

Military projects seem to be the most promising vehicles for getting commercial space ventures off the ground, Seattle-area ...

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

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, ...

Back-to-back engine failures doomed a privately developed Australian rocket moments after liftoff Tuesday, cutting short a long-shot attempt to reach orbit with the country's first homegrown launch ...

In a landmark achievement of global space cooperation, the United States and India successfully launched the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.The ...

After NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Swift Observatory spotted the BOAT, , an international team of astronomers ...

ISRO on Wednesday successfully launched the Earth observation satellite NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar). The three ...

Today, NASA recovers over 90% of the water used in space. Clean water keeps an astronaut crew hydrated, hygienic and fed, as it can use it to rehydrate food. Recovering used water is a cornerstone of ...