This rare planetary alignment will be visible from August 10 but will be best viewed later in the month. Here’s everything ...

With the new moon darkening the skies, you’ll have a rare shot at spotting the Milky Way, deep-sky galaxies, and even the ...

Plus: The August Full Sturgeon Moon shines, the colorful double star Albireo sparkles, and Mercury reappears in the sky this ...

Starting this weekend and into next week, there is a great opportunity to view a nighttime double-header, the unique ...

Saturday, Aug. 9. August’s moon is best known as the Sturgeon Moon, but Indigenous peoples also call it the Black Cherry Moon ...

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

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

The meteors are called the Perseids because they appear to radiate from the constellation Perseus, which at that time of ...

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, ...

August’s 'Sturgeon Moon' arrives with a sky full of sights. Look for bright meteors during the Perseids and spot Jupiter and Venus before dawn ...