What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

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

There will be plenty to look for in the night sky throughout August, with all of the month's big events taking place just ...

Baseball fans watching the Miami Marlins take on the Milwaukee Brewers also got their own show on Friday night. Spectators watched fireworks light up the sky above Miami’s LoanDepot Park.

Less than two weeks later, on June 25, reports began to circulate of a second nova blossoming in the southern night sky, this time in the constellation Vela. This nova — later designated V572 Velorum ...

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

Here's everything to know about the August full moon, including what is a sturgeon moon and what big celestial event coincides with it.

You can catch meteor showers and a special lunar display early this week, and keep an eye out for the popular Perseids ...

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.

Fireworks are lighting the skies up and down the East Coast this Independence Day. In Washington, D.C., President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump celebrated America’s 249th birthday by ...

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