Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full Sky This Week column. July 3: Glimpse the Milky Way's center Mars ...

Look to the west to catch Venus and Jupiter shining bright, with Saturn and Mars visible in the east for early risers, and ...

Friday, July 3Although the Moon is still bright, there's a short window after darkness falls and before moonrise to sneak in ...

A conjunction on Saturday, July 4, sees Mars and faint Uranus extremely close together in the pre-dawn sky, offering ...

Fireworks may not be the only light show this July Fourth weekend. Here's how you can see the Milky Way this month across the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular red, white, and blue view of one of the Milky Way's oldest star clusters to celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary. Hidden within the ancient ...

Earth’s orbit was once treated as an open highway. Today, it is starting to ...

Newly released satellite imagery from Planet Labs provides one of the clearest assessments yet of the damage inflicted on ...

Put aside any notions you have about humans finding a place to live or looking for aliens and exoplanet astronomy is still ...

WTOP’s “Eyes to the Skies” feature previews the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding the moon, planets and stars in July.

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

The night sky above the world’s best observatories has long been prized for one thing above all: darkness. Now that darkness ...