A partial solar eclipse happens Sunday in parts of the Southern Hemisphere. Saturn will also appear at its brightest, with ...

For anyone in Hawaiʻi this weekend, the sky offers a rare show. Saturn, the ringed giant, will rise bright in the evening and ...

August 22nd: The Swan Nebula (M17) reaches its highest point around 11 PM local daylight time, observable with binoculars or telescopes in northwestern Sagittarius. August 23rd: A New Moon, termed a ...

The new moon arrives on July 24, a day after the moon and Jupiter make a close pass in the dawn sky. The exact timing of the new moon phase happens at 3:11 p.m. Eastern Time (1911 UTC), according to ...

“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 ...

August 2025 offers several planetary conjunctions, including a close approach of Venus and Jupiter on August 12th, and a second conjunction of Saturn and Neptune on August 6th, with a third occurring ...