“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 ...

In May, the Milky Way Galaxy greets late night skygazers. You won't be disappointed at a dark sky site like Shenandoah National Park (SNP). This is a composite of several images of the Milky Way taken ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...

The sky's orange and green glows cast a "tie-dye" effect around the moon's outline. In March, observers in Chile were treated to an especially spectacular sight, as the night sky lit up with orange ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The International Space Station (left) and the Tiangong space station (right) will both be ...

A space observatory designed to map the entire sky over a period of two years to further our understanding of the early universe has started snapping images. SPHEREx, which launched in early March, ...