As winter's brilliant stars slip toward the western horizon and the constellations of spring climb higher, Northern ...
The gorgeous astrophotographs highlight the dazzling night sky and remind viewers what we risk losing to light pollution ...
Summer stargazing begins with some spectacular sights, including the hyped conjunction of Jupiter and Venus, which get close ...
Over the last week, we’ve been entertained by a pre-Halloween visitor from the depths of our solar system. It’s Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, a ghostly dirty snowball of rock, gas, and dust partially ...
The telescope operational for over 35 years has been looking at the movement of cosmic matter.
Recently, the Chilean night sky was illuminated by the glow of the Milky Way galaxy as it was seen above the domes of telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a facility of ...
“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...