In August, the most beautiful scenery and impressive celestial events are to be enjoyed before dawn—along with much more comfortable temperatures for sky watching.

WATCH the shocking moment a rare black whole gobbles up a star and causes an earth-shattering explosion in a stunning new ...

New research has revealed that mysterious ‘rogue planets’ could be assembling scaled-down planetary systems of their own.

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

All these great sci-fi quotes... like tears in the rain. Perhaps more than any other genre of movie, science-fiction films ...

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.

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

Mars remains an evening fixture, Saturn is nearing opposition, and Venus and Jupiter meet in the predawn sky Aug. 12.

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

In August, the most beautiful scenery and impressive celestial events are to be enjoyed before dawn—along with much more ...

A flash captured on the morning of July 5 could become a milestone in the history of astronomy. NASA collaborator Mario Rana ...

The marvelous Eise Eisinga Planetarium, the world’s oldest continuously operating planetarium in the world, dating from 1781, in Franeker visited on Day 6 of Boat Bike Tours’ eight-day Islandhopping ...