Jupiter is the brilliant evening “star” visible after sunset this winter, peaking in brightness at opposition on Jan. 10, ...

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We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can. Night time sky gazers can see meteors — bright and dim, ...

Jupiter will be at its most spectacular in 2026 in the early hours of Jan. 10, as it shines above the eastern horizon among ...

“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 ...

The night sky is the Christmas gift that just keeps giving. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Christmas is a wonderful time for ...

When the moon is nearly between Earth and the sun, one side of the moon faces the sun, and that side is illuminated, but the side the Earth sees is dark. This is called the new moon phase of the lunar ...

October features significant planetary phenomena, including two transits of Titan across Saturn and recurring tandem transits of Io and Europa across Jupiter's disk, often with their shadows. The ...

A mysterious glowing pinwheel in the sky on Nov. 4 sparked curiosity across southern Maine and New England. An astronomer identified the phenomenon as excess fuel released from an Ariane 6 rocket ...