Bright stars and a lone bright planet are visible at dusk as December begins. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair and Deneb ...

I have covered a lot of sky over the years, and I hope you have learned a little about our universe and gained an appreciation of the sky.

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio 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 ...

Dwarf planet Ceres reached its stationary point on August 15th, transitioning from eastward to westward motion relative to background stars, observable in the morning sky. On August 16th, a Last ...

On Tuesday morning, the thick waning crescent moon will lie between bright Jupiter and the twin stars of Gemini (Castor and Pollux). The bright star Procyon is nearby. On Wednesday morning, a slightly ...

Hello everyone. We’re losing sight of some of our planets this week. Go out at 5:45 any morning this week and if you have a ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...