One other thing the Gaia data has been clarifying is that the Milky Way's disk is not serene and flat, but warped and ...

Nov. 17: The Leonid Meteor Shower should be best from 1 a.m. to dawn. Under dark sky conditions, the Leonids exhibit a maximum of about 10 to 15 meteors per hour. Nov. 5: Full hunter supermoon — ...

If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title ...

As one half of the International Gemini Observatory, the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii provides astronomers with a window into the distant universe, from growing stars to evolving galaxies. Its ...

Lots of things change in the night sky. Stars rise and set during the night; constellations come and go as the seasons pass; planets waltz along the ecliptic, visiting the zodiacal constellations on ...

Full Supermoon . See the biggest and brightest moon of the year—the full supermoon—on the evening of Nov. 5. The moon will officially reach its fullest state at 8:19 a ...

“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 ...

Is tonight a full moon? Here's when, what time to watch Comet Lemmon and zooming fireballs in the sky from Taurid meteor ...