On a cool night in August, more than 100 people gathered in a dark corner on Frisco Main Street. The lights at the Frisco ...

Autumn has draped itself across the northern hemisphere, heralding the onset of longer, darker nights that serve as the ...

A pairing-off of the brightest planet and a slender crescent moon will be the chief celestial attraction in the dawn sky ...

Greetings stargazers. The night sky is changing. I am not talking about stars disappearing because of light pollution, even thought that is certainly an issue, but I am thinking of all the ways the ...

Climate Change Comes for the House of the Seven Gables One of the World’s Largest Geothermal Networks Is Buried Beneath a Corporate Campus in Rural Wisconsin A Short-Lived Win in a Never-Ending Fight ...

Sirius, also called the Dog Star, is the brightest star in Earth's night sky. Shining more brilliantly than any other star visible from Earth (excluding our sun, of course), Sirius is outshone only by ...

“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 ...

Dwarf planet Ceres reached its stationary point on August 15th, transitioning from eastward to westward motion relative to background stars, observable in the morning sky. On August 16th, a Last ...

“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 some ways, the stars above us are the ultimate equalizer: we're all equally far away, we all share the right to look up at them; and, tiny glittering pinpoints that they are, when we contemplate ...

If you have visited an island like one of the Hawaiian Islands, Tahiti or Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, you may have noticed how small these land masses appear against the vast Pacific Ocean.