We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can.

“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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. After spending the last six months in the evening sky for ...

The long nights of December are an astronomical delight. The early evening sky hosts Saturn as the main feature, along with Uranus and Neptune. Jupiter rises later and is visible all night, its four ...

Several planets, including Mercury, Mars, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter, are visible this month. Saturn's moon Titan will cast its shadow on Saturn twice during July. Neptune will be ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

NEWSCENTER FIVE. 719 AT NIGHT AND WE’VE BEEN GETTING THESE PICTURES FROM MANY VIEWERS ABOUT AN IMAGE IN THE SKY. THIS IS FROM JIMMY IN WORCESTER. SO YOU KNOW WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO? YOU’RE GOING TO ...

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 ...

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 ...